IPHONE APPS / NEWS / DISCOVERY
iPhone apps, news, and accessories.
Discover useful apps, see what’s new, and get more from your Apple devices.
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Wagetap iPhone app review: wage advances and bill splitting in Australia
Wagetap is a Winter 2022 YC iPhone app for Australian wage advances and bill splitting.
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Univerbal for iPhone: AI conversation practice for language learners
Univerbal is a YC Winter 2023 language-learning app for speaking practice, instant feedback, and personalized conversation drills.
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Travel apps for iPhone: maps, itineraries and offline preparation
The best travel setup on an iPhone starts with three jobs: keeping reservations together, finding your way, and having essential information available…
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Solar System: an early iPhone web orrery
Revisit Chronita’s 2007 iPhone web app and learn what an animated overhead model can explain about the solar system.
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iPhone Update 1.1.1: when music purchases moved onto the phone
Revisit the 2007 software update and the importance of distinguishing a historical release note from current update advice.
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Elevator Words: a multilingual letter-alignment game
The original web puzzle at kprobe.com challenged iPhone players to align letters into words.
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iTruth: a simple Bible reader from the iPhone’s web-app era
The historical KJV reader shows the appeal of clear book-and-chapter navigation and a quiet mobile reading routine.
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Yahoo! Mobile: a portal of services for the early iPhone
Yahoo’s 2007 mobile site gathered mail, search, news, weather and other services into a phone-oriented starting page.
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Glide Mobile: office documents in the early iPhone browser
Glide Mobile connected phone and desktop work with Word-document editing and PowerPoint viewing.
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Lunarware Sudoku: a focused puzzle page for the early iPhone
The 2007 directory entry identified Lunarware’s Sudoku player at sudoku.lunarware.com.
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IM+ for Skype: a browser-era chapter in iPhone communication
How SHAPE’s early Skype client fits the iPhone timeline, and why an old service name is not a current calling option.
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iPhone Moon Phase: a date-based lunar web widget
The original widget showed lunar phases, accepted another date and counted down to the next full moon.