The iPhone with its latest apps and upgradations is all the rage among the youth. The minute newbies get their first paychecks nowadays, one wants to buy an iPhone literally. Cars and bikes are secondary, its that hot a commodity!

This funky piece of hands-on technology is great at doing things like any other phone- making calls, sending texts, mail checks and photo sharing. But that's not about it. There are some basics that most of us never bother to explore as long as it serves the prime functions.

Well if you are one of those, just get ready to boggle your friends, play tricks on your colleagues and make your siblings jealous by knowing these cool iPhone user tricks to become a smart user in the real sense.

After the launch of iPhone 5, that just happened like a week ago, all we wanted Apple to do was to update its OS with some amazing features and yes it did. Now we have an improved Siri, Facebook integration,  Full screen Safari, FaceTime usage over cellular networks, the new Apple Maps app etc.

Surprisingly, for the first time ever Apple has removed a software, that it had for long kept with itself since the launch of the iPhone in 2007 - Google Maps and came up with its own built-in map app.

Seikou Yamaoka is a Japanese artist who draws beautiful paintings on his iPod Touch using the ArtStudio app. Though these are digital paintings but they give a look of real, water color paintings. Look at the amazing strokes in the portrait to your left. Doesn't it appear as if they are brush strokes? But actually it is created by Seikou's magical fingertips.

The most fascinating aspect of his artwork is that he just taps/slides on the screen and not any other tool. He spends hours to create an array of these wonderful portraits while commuting to his workplace. The artist defines his goal as to produce images that look more like water color paintings than digital artworks.Well, to the fullest extent, Seikou has been successful in achieving his goal.

Below is a quick video showing how Siekou creates these paintings using $2.99 ArtStudio up on his iPod. Get ready to be fascinated: