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I always complained the iPhone never had a manual, and now it does. The images are crisp and look great. Very handy. Apple should include this manual as one of the default applications that ship with the iPhone.

I had heard about the print version of the iPhone Missing Manual from a friend, but I thought it would be silly to buy a book that is actually physically bigger than the device I am trying to figure out. Now here it is in searchable electronic format on my iPhone itself. I immediately was able to find a link in the table of contents for how to have multiple email accounts in the mail program, which I have been wondering how to do for a long time. It doesn't say it in the name of the application, but the book is written by David Pogue. If you know David Pogue from his technology blog, you know he is amazing at explaining technology to the lay person. From now on, I'll be consulting this book instead of randomly Googling my iPhone questions.

In paper form, this is a fantastic resource. This app, however, needs to be reworked. Bugs abound. Example: attempting to scroll the available alternate fonts will crash the app. The initial format of the text renders odd page breaks and peculiar hanging sentences. Notably, the app allows for extensive customizing. I'd rather not be required to invest time in making the text comfortable to read. Content-wise, this is great info. Shame about the actual app design which, to express bluntly, is horrid. Please fix this O'Reilly/Pogue. Until such time, borrow or purchase the superior paperback form. Your local bookstore or library probably has it.

Reviewing version 1.5. The formatting of this iphone manual app is painful. I bought it on site because I've bought many of the paper books from the series but this is disappointing. They give you options to format it yourself but it should come formatted nicely right out of the box. The developers should go look at they elegant way the did the text for the books in the application 'classics' to see how it's done. The information is great and the only reason it gets a second star but honestly I doubt I'll ever look at this dog again - it's that ugly & uninviting.

The book is east to read and informative but not for those who know the basics already. This is for novices. No special tricks or functions.

It used to really bother me when I would have these specific questions about the iPhone with no manual to explain.. But I can't even place into words the relieve found by this app! At first I was alittle confused how to use it but once I got the hang I've never been so happy by an app. Seriously buy it- it's worth every cent and you will NOT regret it! It's the easiest most convient way to get answers to your questions PLUS nifty tips that if there even WAS a manual that came along it wouldn't include them. Buy it!

I've had my iPhone for several months so, at this point, have learned most of this the hard way. This app would've have been a fabulous resource for me, though, the first few weeks. Apple should include it with the iPhone purchase (of course, then it wouldn't be the "Missing Manual" anymore, I suppose). This searchable resource is clear, concise, affordable, and a must for the new iPhone owner.

iPhone: The Missing Manual should be required reading for any iPhone or iPod Touch owner. Not only is it useful and informative (and sprinkled liberally with Pogue's trademark snarky wit) but it also overcomes one of the major appbook handicaps: the issue of being able to read it on something other than the iPhone.First, we’ll get this out of the way: although the book itself does not make this claim, you will still find it useful even if you have an iPod Touch. Parts of it won’t be—the bits about taking pictures or making phone calls—but apart from those, the Touch is an iPhone in all but name. The information on playing media, surfing the Internet, typing, and so on are all applicable.How helpful is the book? I have already found a lot of remarkably useful information just in the space of a few chapters. It would be no exaggeration to say I learned things over the course of a couple of hours of reading that I never learned in months of iPod Touch ownership.As for the user-interface, this book is wrapped in a version of Stanza, the stand-alone ePub reader. It has all the same controls and interface scheme, and is every bit as configurable; if you have read books in Stanza, the Missing Manual reader will feel very familiar.The text is clearly legible, you can pinch and spread to resize the font if you do not want to go into the configuration screen to do it. You can go into configuration and turn justification on and off, even fiddle with line and paragraph spacing. The book itself is very well and professionally assembled, with larger screenshot pictures interspersed with text, as well as tiny icon pictures within the paragraphs.The only bit that does not work so well is the blockquoted “Tips” passages, which are probably inset sidebars in the print version of the book. If the screen is viewed in portrait orientation, these sections end up being about four words wide. Still readable, but a little awkward. Also, if you view it in landscape, the screenshots will tend to be cut in half at the waist.One thing that might keep many people from even considering an appbook regardless of price is the idea of having it tied to an app. Some might find only ever being able to read it on your iPhone, or the app taking up one of a (relatively) finite number of available icon spaces to be insurmountable handicaps, and pass up a book that they otherwise might have bought.I am here to tell you now: don’t worry. Contained within the disguised ZIP file that is the iManual.ipa application, within your My Music\iTunes\Mobile Applications\ directory, is an easily-extractable unencrypted ePub file of the complete book. You just have to tunnel into it with a ZIP client to pull it out, after which you can read it on your desktop in Adobe Digital Editions or whatever other ePub reader you like, or even sync it to stand-alone Stanza. (The ePub version is $25 if you buy it directly from O'Reilly. What a bargain to get it for the price of this app!)That being said, for use on my iPod Touch I actually find it more useful to have this book available to me in the app wrapper that will always open to that one book every time, rather than requiring me to close whatever else I might have been reading in Stanza first.iPhone: The Missing Manual is a very helpful, fascinating, and insightful book—and, happily, can readily be extracted from its gilded app-wrapper cage for use outside your handheld device. It would be a bargain at its usual price of $9.99—but at $4.99 (as it is as of my writing this review), you simply can’t lose! If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch at all, you MUST buy this appbook right away.

I regret buying this. Do not buy it if u already havent bekuz trust me in here is all the stuff that u would learn from ur fone in a week. There is nothing new here. I wish i could get a refund.

iPhone: The Missing Manual is a new O'Reilly publication; the full text of the O'Reilly book, packaged with the Stanza reader application. I've had an iPhone 3G for a month or so, and I'm a pretty experienced geek, so I've already explored a lot of the iPhone's capabilities, and the iTunes App Store. Somewhat to my surprise, the Missing Manual started giving me new information from early on, and covered a lot of hints and tricks. It's a fast read, too, with a light pleasant style that isn't quite so lightweight as to be annoying.My one complaint, honestly, isn't with the book so much as the Stanza reader. The UI is good, and the paging is fairly intuitive: tap the left third of the screen to page forward, right third to page back. It adapts from vertical portrait to horizontal landscape forward quickly wand well. The only problem is that I can't gt it to zoom, and the font is a little small, at least for an old guy like me. Reading glasses and all, reading for a long time caused me some eyestrain. So, to read it for pleasure, I'd certainly buy the full-sized book, but as a reference on your iPhone, this is an excellent choice, and a fine job by Pogue and O'Reilly.