Lume Review: Turning the iPhone Duo Into a Kitchen Companion

Lume is the kind of app that makes the iPhone Duo’s shape feel useful. A recipe needs room for ingredients and instructions, and a phone on a kitchen counter needs to be readable without being held all the time. Those are good reasons for a developer to think beyond a conventional portrait screen.What I like about João Franco’s approach is that the hardware helps explain the interface. The wide layout can act like an open cookbook. Partially folded, the phone can become a small cooking station. There is personality in that idea, but it serves an ordinary task.That is the thread I enjoy in this new group of iPhone apps. The phone gets to become something: a notebook, a tape deck, or, here, a companion on the kitchen counter. It brings back some of the fun of software that responds to the object in your hands.Disclosure and scopeI received a review code. This review focuses on the iPhone Duo design, with my own device photos and researched feature, pricing, and privacy details. Import…

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