10 Creative Ways of Using Your Smartphone
We use our smartphones for various reasons: to make or receive calls, surf the internet, send a message, and so on. But there are more ways you can use your smartphone.
Nowadays, we are taking and using smartphones everywhere. Now people use their smartphones to take pictures and selfies, play games, listen to music, read articles, text or call, check their emails and notifications, and comment or post on various social networking websites.
However, creative and intuitive people see smartphones as a good way to connect with others and a tool with near-infinite possibilities. Here are ten interesting things you can do with your smartphone.
1. Your Phone’s Speaker can help you get up Early.
You can use your smartphone alarm to get up early from bed. But the key problem is that smartphone speakers are generally not powerful enough for heavy sleepers to wake up.
The solution to this problem is to boost its volume by putting it in a drinking glass, empty pitcher, coffee mug, or vase. In that case, the smartphone’s sound will echo inside the glass and amplify it. Though not the best technique, this process works well for an alarm. Though, make sure that the glass is fully empty. Also, it would be best if you never keep the phone from vibrating while in ringing mode. Because if you do so, then your glass may crash.
2. Improving the World.
Smartphones can allow you to improve in the world. Many smartphone apps help you do something purposeful for society: work as a volunteer in a non-profit organization, or assist you to help in charities.
For example, some app accepts one photo per day as a donation. The photo can be anything from sunrise, sunset, birds, animals, insects, or other appealing pictures. Similarly, another app named Feedie helps you donate to feed poor children.
3. You can keep track of your income and expenses using a smartphone.
You can keep track of or monitor all your expenses and income. This monitoring may make you spend efficiently. It will help you grasp your financial position, and then you can efficiently create your budget. Smartphone provides many apps that monitor your expenses and income. These apps record your daily expenses and income, compare it with the last months, and inform you about your progress and decline to manage your personal finance.
The name of some of these apps is Expense Manager & Money Saver and My Finances. You can choose when to review their daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly reports.
4. Increase Your Focus
Generally, people consider the smartphone as a mode of distraction. But this tool can help you boost your focusing power.
Many smartphone apps can help you improve your focus power. For example, the ‘Moment’ or ‘Flipd’ apps restrict your smartphone spending time. Similarly, the AppDetox app also helps you spend less time on your smartphone and take a digital detox instead of spending time with your phone. Hence, you can rely on these apps to regain your focus at work and boost your overall productivity.
5. Measuring Your Heartbeat
Previously, you needed to go to the hospital to check your heartbeat. Now, a smartphone app is present for that.
Some smartphone apps, such as Instant Heart Rate and Heart Rate Plus, can calculate your heartbeats per minute. It would be best to have that app, your smartphone camera, and the flash inbuilt into your device.
You need to place your finger on your smartphone camera lens and then flash it for a few seconds. The app can read your pulse and your heartbeat count per minute.
6. Control other devices with infrared
While watching your favourite show on TV, if you want to change the TV volume, your smartphone can help you. Many smartphones have an infrared port, which can be used as a TV remote.
You need to download a TV remote app, like the Peel Smart Remote app, for this work. This Peel Smart Remote app can make your smartphone work as a remote for a set-up box, audio system, TV, air conditioner, heater, and DVD player. You can use your smartphone as a remote for any digital gadgets in your house.
7. Diagnose a Leaky Window
It would help if you tightly closed every window of your house to make your room comfortable in winter. Sometimes, a window may be leaky and allow cold air to seep inside the room. In this situation, your smartphone can help diagnose the leaky window. For this purpose, FLTR ONE thermal imaging camera attachment and your smartphone together can discover any leaky window.
8. Scan Barcodes and QR-codes
While shopping, you may need more money in your pocket, so you may want to pay for the purchased items online. Most shops have a facility to pay via Google pay online. For this, they display a barcode or QR code in front of their shop. You copy that barcode or QR code using your mobile and pay for the purchased item online.
9. Translate Languages
While travelling abroad, you may find many situations where you must learn the language people are talking about. Without knowing their language, you could not communicate with them or understand what they say.
For this time of cluelessness, you can use the Google Translate app. Point your smartphone camera at the foreign language text, and the app will translate it into your chosen language. This app can translate printed words, handwritten words, and so on.
10. Use your smartphone as a mic.
A good microphone is needed when communicating with people over the internet, making audio recordings, or using speech recognition. Although headphones usually come with a mic or a built-in microphone in the computer, sometimes audio quality is below-par, or the microphone suddenly stops working when you are talking in a meeting. In case of such an incident, your smartphone beside you can come in handy.
Many smartphone apps are there for this purpose. You should know which is the best for your work purposes and install and use that app with your headphones.
Conclusion
The above points are only a few examples of the creative ways you can use a smartphone to improve your daily life. There are other ways in which a smartphone can ease your burden. It is a wonderful technology helping people to make their everyday life easier.
