8 Cool Things You Didn’t Know Your Android Phone Could Do

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Phones are getting intelligent and smarter every day. With every upgrade so many new features are introduced that it makes your life much easier. From an underwear to a diamond, from cooking to flying an airplane you can literally buy and access every possible information on your smartphone. But at the same time the world of technology is so cluttered and confusing that it can get also get damn frustrating for you.

Hence, for all the android users and lovers here are some cool tips that will surely give you a heads up when using your phone the next time.

1. Reduce your data usage on Chrome

Settings > Data Server > Turn it ON

When this feature is turned on Chrome will use Google servers to compress the pages you visit before downloading them. It will also save you from malware and harmful downloads.

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2. Turn your photos and recordings into a movie

G+ App > Create Movie > Select Images and recordings

This feature is only available with android phone versions 4.3 and up. Go to G+ app and tap on create movie button on the top of the screen. The next step is to select the pictures and its done. You can also select the duration of the video.

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3. Reverse the screen Color

Settings > Accessibility > Negative Color

With this, you can change the screen color of your android phone according to your suitability during day and night.

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4. Display your contact on lock screen

Settings > Lock Screen > Lock screen widgets > Owner information

This will primarily be helpful in case you lost your phone. Anyone can look at your contact info and give it back to you. For people, who have no intention to return it will do nothing anyway no matter how much information you put there. 😆

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5. Control your data usage

Settings > Data Usage

This is easy. You can set your  limit as to how much data you’d like to consume during a particular period so that you are not overcharged by your service provider.

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6. Use your phone as the remote control for the PC

What you need to do is – Just install a chrome remote desktop extension on your PC and related app on your phone to get started. This is so cool.

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7. Open web pages even without the internet connection

Chrome://flags > Show saved copy button > Enable

If you lose out your internet pack on your phone, you can still access the pages that you viewed before by performing the following task. You just have to type Chrome://flags and look for show saved copy buttons and enable this setting.

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8. Use mock locations

Settings > Developer Options > Allow Mock Locations > Turn it ON

Let’s assume a scenario that you are going on a road trip with friends and you don’t want to reveal your actual location to your girlfriend. Just turn this option ON and you are good to go. :)

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Network Technologies like 4G, processors like Octa Core, Operating systems like Android M are set to make this journey into the technological world even better for you. You can follow more updates on Android here.

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