Is thinkingwithportals.com setup to run with any of the mobile platform forum readers out in the app stores? From what I've read online, the individual forum needs to have it setup on their side.

No idea. Give me a link where it says what to do or buy me an iPhone to test myself.

http://www.touchbb.com/index.php?get=script
http://www.forumrunner.net/
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone
On the last link there, I had the iPhone all setup to purchase and was getting ready to hit the checkout button when I realized I didn't have your address and now I'm just simply out of time to go through all that again.

Sure you were.

DERP! why does the iPhone need any additional software? Isn't the normal browser good enough?
I've never had any problems running this site on my two year old samsung galaxy s smartphone...

after a quick google I found http://www.testiphone.com/ and it looked perfectly fine there too
And I haven't heard any complaints about the website being bad to be viewed on an iPhone so yeah I don't know

It works fine with the browser but I was looking for something that might have push notifications and such. The apps I've looked at are not just for the iPhone it could be any smartphone. Since I'm an old guy, I've got pretty bad vision and need to pinch and zoom to look at the site on my phone.