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By Jessie Scanlon
Google "great iPhone apps," and you'll find many Top 10 lists of the coolest applications out there. But in selecting our top Web apps, we focused on design. How does the page look on the 3.5-in. screen? Were the buttons big enough that we could easily tap them with a finger? And does the content reflect the mobile context? The following sites show how simplicity and elegance enhance the mobile Web.