Article: Multimedia Features: Steve Jobs calls the iPhone "the best iPod we've ever made." And in many ways, the phone's music and video features are exactly what you've come to expect from Apple's portable music player. Still, there are key differences. Here's a lock what the iPhone at what the iPhone adds, as well as the iPod-like features it's missing.(Meet the iPhone)(Product/service evaluation)

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The iPhone is very much integrated with iTunes, starting with the fact that you'll need the latest version of the program--7.3, as of this writing--in order to activate the phone and fill it with music and videos.

Syncing The iPhone works almost exactlylike n iPod nano ro a fifthgeneration (5G) iPod. Just select the iPhone in iTunes' Source list and configure the Music, Photos, Podcasts, and Videos tabs to select the content you want to sync to your iPHone.

In the Music tab, you can choose tosync all songs and playlists or just selected playlists;similarly, in the Podcasts tab, you can ask iTunes to sync all your podcasts or just ...

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