IPHONE APPS / NEWS / DISCOVERY
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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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BeeJive in 2007: an AIM chat page for iPhone
Identify BeeJive’s early browser chat listing and separate it from later native messaging products.
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White Pages: the original iPhone web-directory listing
Revisit the 2007 White Pages link and the limits of what a directory result can establish.
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iPhone Tip Calculator: the original baysw.com web tool
This 2007 page covered the tip calculator at tips.baysw.com, a separate tool from other early iPhone calculators.
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iWord: dictionary searches in early iPhone Safari
Identify the original iWord web dictionary and distinguish it from word-processing apps with similar names.
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iPhone Sports: a simple scoreboard from the web-app era
Identify the original iPhone Sports page and understand what makes a small-screen score display useful.
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Chinese-English Dictionary: the original iPhone CEDICT reader
Explore the CEDICT-based dictionary behind this 2007 iPhone bookmark and the difference between dictionary data and a reading interface.
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SeeqPod Music Search & Discovery: finding songs from an early iPhone
SeeqPod’s iPhone page used artist search as a starting point for discovering and listening to music.
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iPhone Haikus: a small poetry community around the original iPhone
The 2007 iPhone Haikus site invited readers to browse and submit poems about the new device.
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i-Tiles: a tile-matching memory game for the first iPhone
A brief history of the original i-Tiles web game and its simple memory-game premise.