iPhone For Dummies, 12th Edition

Chapter 2

iPhone Basic Training

IN THIS CHAPTER

Mastering multitouch

Multitasking with your iPhone

Spotlighting search

Keeping alert through notifications

If you were caught up in the initial iPhone frenzy of 2007, you may have plotted for months about how to land one. After all, the iPhone quickly emerged as the ultimate fashion phone. And the chic device hosted a bevy of cool features.

Owning the hippest and most-hyped handset on the planet came at a premium cost compared with rival devices. To snag the very first version, you may have saved your pennies or said, “The budget be damned.”

That’s ancient history now. A decade later, the iPhone went mainstream and, through many versions, you got more bang for your buck. But you also had to part with more of those bucks. The tenth anniversary iPhone, known as the iPhone X, was the first to crack $1,000. A maxed-out iPhone XS Max, with 512 gigabytes of storage, costs $1449. Not cheap, of course, but plenty of bang too.

We can list a bunch of prices here, but pricing for the wireless industry, and accordingly the iPhone, is in a state ...