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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PayPal – Pay, Send, Save: iPhone Guide to Wallet, Transfers, and Rewards
A practical look at PayPal’s iPhone app for payments, transfers, package tracking, rewards, and account management.
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Munily: a community management app for residents, guards, and admins
Munily is a Winter 2022 YC app for community access, communication, and building management.
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Capital One Shopping: Save Now for iPhone
Free iPhone shopping tool that checks coupons, compares prices, and tracks rewards, with Safari support and iOS 16.6 or later.
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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.
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iWeathr: animated weather radar on the early iPhone
iWeathr was a focused web tool for viewing animated US radar on the first iPhone.
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BrainyQuote on the early iPhone: a quotation library in the browser
The original BrainyQuote listing pointed to a dedicated iPhone web page for browsing quotations.