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Top 5 Smartphone Hacks You Should Know by SofttBae: 10:17am On Aug 15, 2019
In the 21st Century, people are constantly looking for ways to make their life and work essentially easier. Hacks are the tricks or tips that help us do things efficiently and in lesser time.
These hacks can not only help you save time but can also simplify or amplify your user-experience.

Hack 1: Measure using your smartphone
Turns out, in the 21st century, you don’t need a tape to measure length, height or width. Your smartphone is sophisticated enough to do that. You just need an app to do so. You can measure just about anything – from the height of your cup to the width of a park. There are plenty of cool tools in the Play Store as well as in the App Store lining up (pun intended) to be put to use.

Hack 2: Take Selfies Using Headphones
Not only with the volume button of their phones, android users can click a picture by simply hitting the volume button on their headphones.
Bet you didn’t know that.

Hack 3: Turn your Phone into a master remote
Phones now come with IR blasters that can be paired with IR-controlled devices. This means you don’t need to search between the sofa seats to shut your TV down. Your phone’s enough.
Not only that, you can use your smartphone to check whether an infrared-based remote is working or not. Infrared rays cannot be seen by the naked eye, but they sure are visible from your camera. Infrared rays show up as white or purple light in the camera’s viewfinder.

Hack 4: Get a Recycle Bin for Android
Windows has Recycle Bin, Mac has Trash, what does Android have?
Even the iPhone has a feature that stores deleted pictures and videos for 30 days before deleting them permanently. Files deleted in a hurry or without contemplating the consequences can be restored easily with such a feature.
However, Android developers, as usual, never disappoint.
There are some apps in Google Play that offer such protection to user files.

Hack 5: Don’t know something? Upload a picture and get it identified
Long gone is the time when you had to type in the search bar to get the answers. With image recognition software, identifying specific objects in a picture has become a reality.
Google Goggles, the search engine giant’s very own photo recognition tool, does all that it advertises. Whether you are forgetting or coming across the name of something for the very first time, goggles can ID it in a jiffy. It runs the query against its massive image database to come up with near matches and provides reliable results most of the time.

There you have it… These were the top smartphone hacks that can simplify your daily life. Now that you know that your phone is an awesome device capable of doing amazing stuff, don’t forget to give these hacks a try.

Re: Top 5 Smartphone Hacks You Should Know by Harryase(m): 2:31pm On Aug 15, 2019
Hmm, very informative.
Re: Top 5 Smartphone Hacks You Should Know by jonsin(m): 3:18pm On Aug 15, 2019
Good day, pls my phone is not rooted and I need help with someone that has rooted his phone, I want to increase my whatsapp group to 10000, I know the procedures to follow just need to find someone online that has a rooted phone. My whatsapp number, 08069689266. Please any one that can help, I'll be very grateful
Re: Top 5 Smartphone Hacks You Should Know by Rubiesangel: 4:19pm On Aug 16, 2019
Quite informative
Re: Top 5 Smartphone Hacks You Should Know by Yyvonne: 6:36am On Aug 27, 2019
Rubiesangel:
Quite informative
you're right
Re: Top 5 Smartphone Hacks You Should Know by mboii(m): 6:57am On Aug 27, 2019
You should've add those apps name on playstore
Re: Top 5 Smartphone Hacks You Should Know by tafat: 6:30am On Aug 28, 2019
wow, very informative, i never knew you could take selfies using earphones o
Re: Top 5 Smartphone Hacks You Should Know by SofttBae: 3:31pm On Sep 09, 2019
tafat:
wow, very informative, i never knew you could take selfies using earphones o
now you know

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