Yes you can not do a lot of things with iPhone but that hasn’t stopped iPhone to be one of the most popular piece of gadgets in the history. So let me give you 25 more reasons to wonder about iPhone.

1. Maximize Battery Life

There is a separate sensor situated right above the earpiece, that detects ambient light. The iPhone uses this sensor only once per session, just as you unlock the handset.

  1. Cover the sensor as you unlock the phone, you will trick the handset into thinking it’s in a dark room, and it will power down the screen brightness.
  2. You can also turn off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi if you don’t expect to use them for a while.
  3. You can also set email fetch time to Hourly or Manually, and turn the Push off in order to save energy.

Do all of them and you will see an improvement in battery life.

2. Create a home page

You can’t create a homepath on iPhone as easily as you can do on Mac. But there is a way. Add your would-be home page to your bookmarks list, and then move it to the top of the list. It just requires an extra tap.

3. Share any URL

If you want to send a friend the URL of a Web page you’re viewing, tap on the address bar, and then tap on Share. A new e-mail message containing the address will open in Mail. Just choose one or more recipients, add your comments, and tap on Send.

4. Make a call from Safari

If you find a phone number in Safari that you’d like to call, perhaps the phone number of a restaurant where you’d like to make a reservation, you needn’t jump to the phone component. Just tap on the number, and the iPhone will dial it for you.

5. Investigate Links

In Safari, if you hold your fingertip down on a link instead of tapping, you’ll summon an information balloon that displays the underlying URL.

6. Go straight to the top

When viewing a long Web page, if you want to get back to the top or access Safari’s address field, you don’t have to scroll all the way up. Instead, just tap on the gray status bar at the top of the iPhone’s screen. You’ll be immediately transported to the top of the current Web page

7. Mark Read Messages as Unread

There doesn’t appear to be any way to mark read messages as unread on the iPhone — but there is. While viewing a message, tap on Details, which reveals a Mark as Unread option. Tap on it.

8. Recover Lost e-mails

If you try to send an e-mail but the iPhone can’t get network access, you might think your message has disappeared completely. But don’t worry. A temporary Outgoing folder is created to hold the message. You can access this folder from the main screen of the sending account.

Beware: It will disappear once network access is available and the message is sent.

9.Create e-mail Folder

You can’t create e-mail folders on the iPhone. But what you can do with an IMAP e-mail account is create folders on the IMAP server . If you have a .Mac account, using the .Mac Web-mail interface. Those folders will then appear on the iPhone, and their contents will eventually be synced between the iPhone and the server.

10. Save messages in Draft Folder

If you want to save a message you’re working on so you can come back to it later, tap on Cancel. Instead of deleting the message immediately, Mail pops up a dialog box with the options Save, Don’t Save or Cancel. Tap on Save, and the message will be placed in your Drafts folder.

11. Play Music Tracks Faster or Slower

Just tap on the Settings button and then on the iPod option. Tap on the Audiobook Speed entry, and in the resulting screen, choose Slower, Normal or Faster. Its easy and its fun.

12. Change iPod icon

Simply tap on the More icon, and then tap on the Edit button in the upper-left corner of the resulting screen. To substitute one of these icons for one that appears at the bottom of the iPod screen, just tap and hold on the icon you prefer and drag it over the icon you want to replace. Tap on Done when you’re finished.

13. Use iPhone as a File Storage Device

Ecamm Network’s iPhoneDrive, lets you view files on your iPhone in a Finder-like interface. You can copy files to and from your iPhone via drag and drop, some simple buttons, or the program’s File menu. Its a paid product but for those who can’t make use of 8 GB or reluctant to watch videos from iPhone, they will surely have plenty of free space. A file storage gadget as iPhone is surely cool.

14. Use Favorites and Recents for SMSes

We all knew about the favorites and recents in call making and all, but you can use it for SMSes too. Just tap on the right angle bracket (>) icon next to the contact name or number, and then tap on the Text Message button at the bottom of the contact and bingo!

15. Get Fast Driving Directions

One of the primary uses for the iPhone’s Maps application is to get driving directions. Both the starting and destination fields offer a Bookmarks icon, so you can quickly use a bookmark, a recent location or a contact when searching for directions. The first thing you should do in Maps is find your own address and bookmark it .This will make finding directions to and from locations much easier.

16. Get a Host of Feeds to Read from One

Leaflets lets you check feeds from Newsvine, del.icio.us, yahoo upcoming events, flickr, NY Times and much more. It also points you to a list of apps for the iphone that you may not have installed yet.

17. Use a Tweaking Software

Bossprefs app provides you with a settings replacement app. It adds a bunch of convenient fast toggle switches to its main screen such as toggle wifi, bluetooth etc. In addition, it allows you to add other services apps to its dock so you can launch them from within the app and remove them from your springboard (clean up the springboard). It also provides some other functions such as allowing you to hide any icon, set numeric battery, disable’s Apple’s killswitch. Has a pluggable interface so addons can be written by you.

18. Broadcast Videos from iPhone

With Flixwagon, you can broadcast live video from your phone to the web, keep videos for later, stream to your blog, notify your friends and more. Its a great app for all the mobile video lovers to stream and share.

19. Different Domain Suffix

Hold down the .com button, you can see a popup comes up with .net, .edu and .org buttons. Slide your finger from them and then release your finger to choose. Very useful for the internet surfers. Its quick and easy too.

20. Inserting a Period

When you are typing on you iPhone, simply double tapping the Space Bar button at the end of a sentence, it will automatically insert a period followed by a space. It saves you a lot of time instead of pressing 124 to get the numbers and symbols page where the period located in.

21. Get a Bigger Keyboard

As with any other iPhone function requiring data entry, tapping on Safari’s address bar summons an on-screen keyboard. If you rotate the iPhone horizontally before tapping on the address bar, the Safari window will switch to horizontal mode. You get a larger keyboard so typing out data is not a problem with iPhone any more.

22.  Set Parental Controls

You can enable certain restrictions or parental controls on your iPhone. You can block explicit lyrics, Safari, YouTube, iTunes, or the App Store. Just go to Settings, General, Restrictions.

23. Tap the bottom corner to navigate home screens

When on your home screen, try tapping the bottom right/left corner to switch between pages instead of swiping your finger accross the screen.

24. Move dock icons

I wonder how many people overlook this feature. The 4 icons located on the grey bar at the bottom of your iPhone - Phone, Mail, iPod, Safari - are movable, just like the rest of the icons. Press and hold the icons, then drag them while they are shaking. Press the home button when you’re done. You can put any 4 icons on your dock.

25. Double tap a column on Safari to fit-to-page

When browsing the Internet on your iPhone’s Safari browser, double tap any column, word, or picture to fit it’s width to your iPhone’s screen. This is extremely useful for reading blogs.

Conclusion

So, do you have any more tip to include? Feel free and write to us. We will include it. Ciao.

[source: iPhonetools.com, computerworld.com]