iPhone for Work: Increasing Productivity for Busy Professionals

The iPhone is cool, and the iPhone is fun, but the iPhone also means serious business. For those of you who bought your iPhones to help get your lives organized and free yourselves from the ball and chain of desktop computing, iPhone at Work: Productivity for Professionals is the book to show you how.

There are plenty of general-purpose iPhone guides, but iPhone at Work: Productivity for Professionals shows you how to complete all the traditional smartphone tasks, like to-do lists, calendars, and e-mail, and become much more efficient and productive at work. You'll learn mechanisms for developing effective workflows specific to the features of the iPhone and also efficient strategies for dealing with the specialized aspects of business and professional lifestyles.

From the introduction and throughout the book, author Ryan Faas targets professional users of the iPhone. You'll tour the built-in applications and configuration options, always with work and productivity in mind, and discover all of the enterprise features of the iPhone, learning how to configure and use each one.

Then discover the App Store: source of all third-party software. There's something a bit daunting about the dominance of games and frivolous apps on the best-seller lists, but there are serious business and vertical applications also available, and you'll learn about some of the best and how to take advantage of this wealth of add-on and very professional functionality.

And for those administrators with the special job of deploying lots of new iPhones across the enterprise, this book concludes with two appendixes that provide information and resources for companies. The first is intended for organizations looking to perform larger-scale iPhone or iPod touch deployments complete with device management. The second is geared for those companies that wish to develop an iPhone platform–oriented infrastructure through the use of customized in-house applications and iPhone/iPod touch–specific web services.

What you'll learn

• Purchase and configure an iPhone specifically for business
• Integrate built-in iPhone platform features into an everyday professional workflow
• Access enterprise-wide data and computing features
• Pick up specific tips for different professions
• Deploy the iPhone platform across groups both large and small
• Discover the secrets of iPhone platform customization and personalization

Who is this book for?

You already have or are considering the purchase of an iPhone. You know it's the coolest smartphone around, but you actually want to use it to make your professional life more efficient, more productive, and more fun! Clearly, the iPhone has inherent uses for a broad range of professions including management, sales, medical/dental, legal, real estate, training and education, human resources, and information technology, so there are many of you. Some of you are novice mobile device users, others are highly experienced mobile pros. No matter, because every professional iPhone user across this continuum of experience wants to learn to work smarter, better, and more efficiently. This book shows you how to use your iPhone to do this.

iPhone很酷，也很有趣，但iPhone也代表著嚴肅的業務。對於那些購買iPhone來幫助組織生活並擺脫桌面運算束縛的人來說，《iPhone at Work: Productivity for Professionals》是一本能夠指導你如何做到這一點的書籍。

有很多通用的iPhone指南，但《iPhone at Work: Productivity for Professionals》向你展示如何完成所有傳統智能手機任務，如待辦事項列表、日曆和電子郵件，並在工作中變得更加高效和有生產力。你將學習開發針對iPhone功能的有效工作流程機制，以及應對商業和專業生活中特殊方面的高效策略。

從介紹開始，作者Ryan Faas針對iPhone的專業用戶。你將遊覽內置應用程序和配置選項，始終以工作和生產力為重，並了解iPhone的所有企業功能，學習如何配置和使用每個功能。

然後發現App Store：所有第三方軟件的來源。最暢銷榜上的遊戲和輕浮應用程序的主導地位有些令人畏懼，但也有一些嚴肅的商業和垂直應用程序可供選擇，你將了解其中一些最好的應用程序，以及如何利用這些豐富的附加和非常專業的功能。

對於那些負責在企業中部署大量新iPhone的管理員，本書最後提供了兩個附錄，提供給公司的信息和資源。第一個附錄適用於希望進行大規模iPhone或iPod touch部署並具有設備管理功能的組織。第二個附錄適用於希望通過使用定制的內部應用程序和iPhone/iPod touch專用網絡服務來開發iPhone平台導向基礎設施的公司。

你將學到什麼：
- 購買並配置專門用於商業的iPhone
- 將內置的iPhone平台功能整合到日常專業工作流程中
- 存取企業級數據和計算功能
- 為不同行業提供特定的技巧
- 在大型和小型團體中部署iPhone平台
- 發現iPhone平台定制和個性化的秘訣

這本書適合誰閱讀？
你已經擁有或正在考慮購買一部iPhone。你知道它是最酷的智能手機，但你實際上想要使用它使你的專業生活更高效、更有生產力和更有趣！顯然，iPhone對於包括管理、銷售、醫療/牙科、法律、房地產、培訓和教育、人力資源和信息技術在內的各種職業都有固有的用途，所以有很多人需要這本書。你們中的一些人是新手移動設備用戶，其他人是經驗豐富的移動專業人士。不管怎樣，因為在這個經驗的連續中，每個專業的iPhone用戶都想學會更聰明、更好、更高效地工作。這本書將教你如何使用你的iPhone實現這一目標。