A question and answer wiki written by and for YOU.

Our goal is to have the highest quality answer to every conceivable question about how to use your smartphone. By high quality we mean correct, well-written, clear, pictorial, detailed, and up-to-date. Such a how-to manual is impossible for any single individual or even a crack team of experts to write. With all the OS upgrades, apps, websites, networks, and thousands of possible questions, we need YOU to answer the questions you know most about. Or at least improve existing questions.

Find answers to basic or complex questions about your smartphone.

We started PhoneHow with the goal of creating a single place on the web where you can find answers to all your questions about how to use your smartphone.

We got tired of having simple (and sometimes complex) questions that were not properly answered on the web. Or if they were, it was often on a random blog, and the information was either partially out of date or it took 10 minutes to find the little nugget of relevant information in comment #87.

So we created PhoneHow! The single destination for for everything smartphone. We're just getting started, and are focused on building a community of people who love to help others get the most out of their smartphones.

Smartphones only

In a couple years, everyone will have a smartphone. Will we know there are hundreds of feature phones and thousands of questions about them, this site is focused on smartphones. With all their power, a complete how-to site is all the more useful for smartphones.

Shouldn't a site like this already exist?

It should, but it hasn't appeared for several reasons. Smartphone knowhow has to come from a community. No single individual or team can possibly keep up with all that is happening in mobile. A how-to site will only be useful if it keeps pace with what people are doing on their phones.

We launched PhoneHow because we saw that there were no good tools for building a how-to community for smartphones. Primarily, answers need to be created and owned by the community, which is why PhoneHow is a wiki. But readers who need clarification need to be able to comment on answers very easily, which is why PhoneHow allows comments much like a blog. Those same readers should also be able to vote on the quality of answers, to help order peoples' answers, much like on sites such as Digg and Reddit. Last, active contributors need a way to show readers just how much effort they have put into the community. So like a forum, PhoneHow has user profiles and much more.