Hello there, my name is Andy Walker, Executive Producer of Butterscotch.com and this is the continuing series of iPhone basics here on Butterscotch.com and in this episode I'm going to show you how to deal with the key piece of what the iPhone is all about.
Yeah, the phone itself, it’s the phone of course. I mean it looked like a little computer. It may have all these programs but really at its core is a phone. So there is the phone icon there and I'm going to dial a call and we’ll how to deal with an inbound call. So here I go. And within a moment you’ll see the inbound call respond on the screen and there it comes. So now you can see you have a declined button here, so I can choose decline to have it go straight to voice mail or I can choose answer, so I'm going to push answer here and there you go. There is the phone and I’ve answered the call.
I’m on a call right now and I’ll go to speak it’s up to my ear and I would speak into the microphone at the bottom here and then here is the ear put piece here, right there. So I would pick up the phone. Now what happens is when you put, when you cover your face with the phone it will actually turn off so we can simulate that here, as you can see so I'm putting up to my face.
And as you can see the screen is turned off which saves power of course. The screen doesn’t easily on when I'm talking and when I put it away from my face. Of course the call is ongoing. Now I can put the person on hold and I'm going to do that now by pushing the hold button and you should know that when it’s on hold you will actually in some cases hear a hold signal. The person who has been put on over holds it. I can put them off of hold here. I can put them on mute so I can have a conversation so they don’t hear what I’m having to say.
And there’s actually a three way calling feature so I can actually add a call so I can choose somebody from my inbox, call them and link them in. Now you’ll be using airtime for both calls there, but that is not worth doing, if you want to link somebody else in. I’m going to cancel that here.
I also wanted to make you aware that there is a speaker phone built into the iPhone, so we’ll turn that on. Oh a little feedback there but that will hear the person through the speaker on the phone as opposed to you know through the earpiece here.
I did want to also show you a couple of other things, too. We can actually use the telephone, the data piece of it, the applications piece of it while I’m still on a call. So all I have to do here is I want to push this button down here and what you will see is this band across here. See it says, “Touch to return to call” and it shows the call time. So I can go ahead and I can use any of these applications. I can go into say “maps” and look something up, and you know, I’ll go back or I could check a contact for somebody. I can check my email, any of these things while the call is or the person is on hold and then when I want to go back to the call, just simply touch it up here and I’m back on the call like that.
The same time you can also if you’re on a call and you need to dial a code, let’s say you’re dialing to your voice mail and then you can summon the keypad this way. So you could actually punch a code in to get your voice mail or perhaps you have long distant dialing code or something like that.
Anyway that’s the basics around how to receive a call. I’m going to hang up here and let’s see how we can make a call. So I’m going to go up to the main screen here and I’m going to choose phone. This is an outbound call. Now I can choose from people who recently called me or left voice mail here. I can click on my contacts list and call somebody from my contacts list. So let’s choose somebody here and notice this here it says, “Add to favorites”. This will add this person to my favorites list. Add to favorites, Microsoft PR person and I go back to my favorites. You will now see that she’s been added here to my favorites. So that’s a handy thing for people you call regularly. Okay, good.
So let’s make an outbound call now, and I’m going to push the keypad here. I’m going to get rid of what I just called before and I'm going to call two thousand and one four one six five three five two one two three. Push the call button and now we’re going to be calling an outbound and I’ll put in the speaker or I can turn off the speaker, like that. That’s simple, that’s it. So you know when I finished talking to the person at the end I can push “end call” and that’s the end of the call and I can make another one as well.
So that’s how to use the phone in your iPhone. Hope you enjoyed this particular tutorial. You can see more on iPhone basics and other tutorials at Butterscotch.com. So check it out and I’ll see you next time. My name is Andy Walker.
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