App Watch: IMDb for iPhone Can Settle Bar Debates

December 21, 2009 at 7:45 am PT

Can’t quite keep track of the difference between ’80s stars Corey Haim and Corey Feldman? Now there’s an app for that.

The Internet Movie Database, which has been helping solve movie- and celebrity-related debates for nearly two decades, is finally taking its show on the road.

Earlier this month, IMDb (owned by Amazon.com), unveiled an iPhone app that stuffs its 1.5 million movie and TV titles and 3.2 million celebrity profiles into a few square inches. There’s been so much pent-up demand for a mobile IMDb that others have attempted to make unofficial phone-friendly interfaces for the site, such as this one by developer Martin Grayson.

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