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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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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RonPaul iPhone Headquarters: a campaign website for the first iPhone
A look at the 2007 mobile campaign site built by Terra Eclipse for Ron Paul’s 2008 campaign.
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New York On Tap: finding the next stop with an early iPhone
Revisit the mobile New York On Tap bar directory and its practical approach to small-screen local search.
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MSN Messenger on the first iPhone: the original web widget
Identify the third-party MSN widget behind this 2007 bookmark and understand why a messenger’s interface and network are different things.
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iPhone sho’fr: automotive reviews in the mobile browser
Identify sho’fr’s early iPhone community and how local automotive reviews differ from a service specification.
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Apple’s early iPhone RSS reader: a web-shaped beginning for mobile news
The reader.mac.com experiment belongs to the first iPhone’s browser-based era and still offers a useful lesson about choosing a manageable news feed.
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iPhone recipes: organize the dishes you actually cook
A practical recipe-library workflow for saving sources, recording changes, and planning a useful grocery list.
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CheapMF: an early mobile product-search tool
Revisit the product search and customer-review workflow behind this 2007 iPhone web listing.
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YouTube on the first iPhone: the mobile website and built-in app
Understand the two early routes to YouTube on iPhone and why the date of an archived page matters.
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iTweetr: a Twitter-shaped preview of the first iPhone web
Dean Robinson’s pre-launch concept shows why a timeline, navigation and a clear sense of place mattered on the first touch-screen phone.