Recents

Tapping the recent icon displays the iPhone call log. The Recents feature houses logs of all the, well, recent calls or received, as well as calls you missed. Here's a tricks concept: Tap All to show all the recent calls and Missed to show just those missed. Under the All list, completed calls and missed call that have been returned by clicking the red entry are shown in black and missed calls that haven't been returned in this fashion are in red, along with a descriptor of the phone you were calling or received a call from (home, mobile, and so on).

By tapping the small blue circle with the right-pointing arrow next to an item in the list, you can find out the time the call was made or missed, as well as any known info about the caller from your Contacts information.

To return a call, just tap anywhere on the name.

If one of the call you missed came from someone who isn't already in your COntacts, you can add him or her. Tap the right-pointing arrow, and then tap the Create New Contact button. If the person is among your Contacts but has a new number, tap the Add to Existing Contact button. When the list gets too long, tap Clear to clean it up.