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douglas9

(4,474 posts)
Wed Dec 26, 2018, 08:54 AM Dec 2018

21 Hidden Smartphone Superpowers

Today’s phones are smarter than you probably know. Here are some of the surprising things they can do to keep you safe and healthy, and make life easier. In most cases, there's no need to download an extra app—and when we do recommend an app it's one made by Apple or Google.

There's just one wrinkle for Android users: Instructions and capabilities vary from brand to brand and model to model. But our instructions should work for most recent smartphones.



https://www.consumerreports.org/smartphones/21-hidden-smartphone-superpowers/

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21 Hidden Smartphone Superpowers (Original Post) douglas9 Dec 2018 OP
Cool. I'm going to try some of those. underpants Dec 2018 #1
super cool. mopinko Dec 2018 #2
cool natheo Jan 2019 #3
thanks for posting this IcyPeas Feb 2019 #4

underpants

(186,646 posts)
1. Cool. I'm going to try some of those.
Wed Dec 26, 2018, 09:52 AM
Dec 2018

I'm at work with next to no one here (I had to get out of the house - we have visitors) and not much to do today.

IcyPeas

(22,621 posts)
4. thanks for posting this
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 08:39 PM
Feb 2019

I have a smartphone and I always feel like there are probably more things I could use it for. This was informative.

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