Chess, Chat and Cheap Gas: The IPhone’s Best Web Apps Reviewed

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from Wired:


The Apple iPhone was only released into the wild a little over a week ago, and some killer apps have already surfaced.While the handheld device lacks support for native applications — the kind users can download and install — developers have been busy building programs for the iPhone’s version of the Safari web browser. It may not be the most ideal platform for adding functionality to the iPhone, but it works. By squishing down and optimizing their browser-based apps, developers have managed to add a great deal of value to the sleek black device.

Here’s a look at the best iPhone web apps so far.

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This is a cool start to iPhone applications reviews - though I’m not sure that the reviewers always have iPhones, since Zoho is at the top of all the lists, and you can’t seem to use it for anything.

I’m pulling for gOffice for iPhone. It seems the only app so far that allows typing in a document of some kind. It was a great disappointment to find out that Google Docs did not work on the iPhone, in spite of an elegant rendering of Google Reader for iPhone.

What are your favorite iPhone applications so far? Leave your thoughts in the comments - I can’t wait to find some new great apps for my iPhone.

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