1. Get a good case. Read reviews. Be wary of overly-minimalist cases and cases that don't offer much friction/grip. You probably already did all of this, but I want to re-emphasize the importance. 2. Take full advantage of the interfaces you can easily get to by swiping from off-screen. Swiping up from the bottom gives you quick access to control brightness, turn on/off the flashlight, and use the camera (among other features). Swiping down from the top gives you a quick summary of what your day looks like, according to Apple; itinerary, weather, etc., and you can customize what data it will fetch for you on this menu somewhere in the "settings". 3. If your hands are full or you're driving, look for the little (very little) microphone icon button that appears when the keyboard displays for text entry. The speech-to-words translation is pretty accurate. 4. Double tapping the home button allows you to see what apps are currently running. After double tapping, if you want to terminate a particular program/app, scroll over to it and flick it upwards and off the screen to close it. This can be good if you're running many intensive apps all at once, and need to close some so that you free up the memory (it takes a LOT of apps running to necessitate this). 5. Holding the home button for a few seconds (at the "home" screen) will allow you to permanently delete applications and/or move the icons around on the home screen. Most importantly, don't be afraid to push all the buttons. You're not going to break it by using it. Apple has made such a thing very difficult. You'll be up to speed in no time :).
Hey Am_ Thank you thank you. I need a case. I have a question (and might have more) When the phone reads my gmail, has it downloaded all the gmail to my physical phone or is it reading it off the cloud? I'm just wondering because there are 1204 messages up in the gmail cloud. Thanks Can I ask you more questions?
Sorry for the wait, it's finals week, exam tomorrow. Dude get a case ASAP!! A naked iPhone will throw itself at the hardest surface around whenever given the chance. Starting with the iPhone 4, they built the damn things to break their own screens, I swear to God. Probably a deal with the companies that build cases and other accessories. Both. The phone will download only some of the content from the cloud, usually only the last month's worth of messages or so. I couldn't find anywhere to adjust this in the settings, but it won't download everything unless you scroll down your list of mail so far that it retrieves more. The amount of hard drive space that this takes up is trivial when you have several gigabytes of storage on your iPhone. And of course you can ask me all the questions your lil heart desires :).When the phone reads my gmail, has it downloaded all the gmail to my physical phone or is it reading it off the cloud?