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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Google Gemini for iPhone: what it does and what to expect
Google Gemini brings Google’s AI assistant to iPhone for chat, research, uploads, and Gemini Live, with some iOS limits.
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Elevate Pay: a USD banking app for freelancers and remote workers
Elevate Pay offers non-U.S. residents a U.S.-style USD account for receiving, sending, and holding money.
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Apple is pushing foldable-iPhone apps from day one with a new App Store badge
Apple is spotlighting foldable-friendly apps for iPhone Duo and adding a new App Store badge for optimized titles.
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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.
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Othello on the early iPhone: the Safari game and the rules
The specific browser-based Othello game linked in 2007, plus the rules that make its black-and-white board easy to understand.
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RDM+ for early iPhones: a browser window onto a remote PC
Revisit SHAPE Services’ 2007 RDM+ listing and the difference between a remote desktop and a transferred file.