1. Meet the iPhone and iPod touch

Allow me to lead off this pocketable guide with this crucial advice regarding the iPhone and iPod touch: Don’t be fooled by the names. By that, I mean that although the names indicate that the iPhone is little more than a mobile phone and the iPod touch must be primarily a media player, the truth is that each device is a small but very powerful, very flexible mobile computer.

The iPhone additionally happens to make and receive phone calls, but that’s just one of its many talents. In fact, both devices offer all these features:

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And, as they say in the cartoons, that ain’t all. Thanks to the more than half-million ...

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