What's On My Smartphone
Many years ago, when smartphones were relatively new, I wrote a blog post about the essential apps that I kept on the home screen of my iPhone. Some of those apps are gone and a lot of them have long ago left my phone, having been replaced by apps that I now find much more useful. The original list of apps was composed before I was even connected on Twitter. Since then, I had joined the vast number of twits, dumped Twitter, joined two other similar social-media apps, and dropped them for what I have now. I maintain a very simple home screen on my latest smartphone, a Samsung Galaxy S24. I don't have the screen filled with tiles, preferring to keep wallpaper free of clutter. And I've set up my phone so that the tiles have no labels. Here's what I have on my smartphone, starting at the top and working counter-clockwise: The Weather Network: for me, no smartphone would be complete without having the ability to check the forecast, whether I'm at home or abroad. and the ba...
