Actually, I am cheap.

1. It's not an iPhone. It's an iPod Touch.
2. I paid $100 for it, not the $300 it retails for.
3. You know what happens when you assume? ;^)

Re: Illustrations. It has illustrations along with the text (well, photos so far as I've seen), as well as photographs and video clips. I'm not sure if the full version has decent videos or not though, as the free version turns out to have only a two and a half minute clip pushing a DVD set.