A mobile phone is a major part of our everyday lives, from using a phone to text and call, to using a phone to get you from A to B. We just can’t live without them, can we?
Recently the mobile phone price comparison site, SellMyMobile.com decided to look into the many ways that we can use a mobile phone. I have to say I learnt some new things!
Anyway here are our top 10 picks:
Use Your Phone as a Note Taker
Another in-built feature to many Smartphones running Android and iOS is a note taking tool such as Keep. This tool can make it easy for you to take quick notes on the fly about everything and anything. There is also third-party apps such as the impressive Evernote which can sync notes across platforms and devices.
Use Your Phone as a Sat Nav
A very popular in-built program to most phones is Google Maps which works a treat if you don’t have a standalone sat nav or in-built sat nav in your car. Simply load up the app type in your destination and away you go. The sat nav works off location-based services and GPS so its knows where you are and where you need to be going.
Use Your Phone to Play Games
You have all heard of Flappy Bird and Angry Bird right? Two popular games that people play on their Smartphones. Well on the Play Store and iTunes store you can browse through hundreds of games from puzzles to racing games right through to simulators. Trust me; you will never be bored again.
Use Your Phone to Check Your Bank
Having control of everything whilst your are on the go is such a convenient thing these days, allowing you to easily keep tabs of your bank account but also allowing you to make payments, and change details. Most people will have online banking setup on their accounts, but if you don’t it’s worth taking a look at so you can stay ahead of your finances.
Use Your Phone to Identify Music
Have you ever been sat around listening to the radio at work and thought, ‘Hang on, what’s that song?’ Well luckily there is a great tool called Shazam that will help you identify the song on the radio. All you need to do is hold the phone against the radio speaker, hit a button, and it will listen to the song and then match the music with an artist’s name and song title.
Use Your Phone to Watch TV
BBC iPlayer and 4 On Demand are just two of the on demand streaming applications that are available for users to benefit from. If you have a busy lifestyle then these apps can be a God send. Yes, there is Sky+ but if you are constantly on the go then you won’t have time to watch them at home so the best alternative is to watch them on your phone. After all, your phone is always going to be within an arms reach of you.
Use Your Phone as a Word Scanner for The Visually Impaired
SayText is a revolutionary app that will allow you to listen to text messages as well as scanning in documents. The tool will take a photo of something in front of you and then read the text, the OCR will then relay that text to you in an audio format helping you learn what the document is about. What a great little app!
Use Your Phone to Control The Lights in Your Home
Using an app on your phone, along with a WiFi connection and the right set of bulbs and you can magically turn on and off the lights in your home. With some bulbs you can also use your phone as a dimmer switch, and control your lights to come on and off by timer. Pretty funky huh?
Use Your Phone to Drive a Car
Some boffins down under decided to come up with a way to control your car via your phone. Admittedly it hasn’t reached the greatness of being able to control the vehicles we drive to work but it can be used to drive smaller cars. The phone uses GPS and maps to help plot a specific path for the car to navigate down.
Use Your Phone as a Hotspot
If you happen to be somewhere where you cannot get a WiFi signal the hotspot feature can be a real savior. You can essentially share your phones 3G/4G connection with a WiFi only enabled tablet and then use both devices to access the Internet. This is usually a great asset when you are in the middle of no-where, on holidays or experiencing issues with your home router.
If you want to take a look at more ways that you can make the most of your mobile phone then take a look at the 50 ways you can use your mobile phone, there are some great little tips that you can use.
