My girlfriend recently was given an iPhone 4 for Christmas, and as a result I was interested in seeing if it was capable of doing any “cool” things. In doing a Google search for the “secrets of the iPhone 4” I came to find that there are actually MANY unknown secrets of the iPhone 4. Strangely enough, most of these secrets are not printed in the included instruction iPhone 4 manual, and from what I can tell they are not even necessarily found on Apple’s own website! Some of these iPhone secrets may come as no real surprise to you, but hopefully at least a few of them will immediately make you pull out your smart phone and check them out. Many of these tricks for the iPhone 4 actually work with previous iPhone models, as well as the iPod touch; so be sure to keep that in mind as well!
1. You’re iPhone can Read your E-Books and other Documents to You
This is certainly a strange thing that is implimented into the Apple iPhone 4 that most will never notice. While it does require the free iBooks application (which comes preinstalled on the iPhone 4), it is one of interesting and relatively useful tools that can make all e-books into audio books, and make going through tedious work and school documents a lot more bareable. All you have to do is turn on VoiceOver (the text-to-speech feature), open up your desired e-book or PDF document, double tap your screen, and listen to the voice read until you double tap again to make it stop. While the voice is rather robotic sounding, it is very bareable for most uses; and can in the least be pretty fun. One thing I did with this was write a piece of poetry, upload it as a PDF, then listen to the iPhone read it to me. This is a very practical application and amusing as well! This service is also excellent for someone with disabilities as well, which is why it is actually in the iBooks app to begin with.