Android users, unite: iPhone despite being responsible for the first great revolution of smartphones, Android dominates the market for smart phones in the world. It is estimated that 65% of the users have little robot system. And while Android devices are quite different – not only because of the numerous versions of the system, often not upgradeable, but because of the variety of devices, too – we split a list of things that most Android users do not know that Your phone is capable of doing.
It is clear that many functions among which so down here depend on how modern is your device. But some are worth to all Androids, too. Take a look and see what applies to your pro:
Share things touching a phone in the other
The technology Near Field Communication – it’s your only ticket / card for buses, for example – already embedded in most of the modern phones. The main attraction of it is to enable electronic wallet service, or pay for things using your phone. But while the fashion of payments does not come to Brazil, you can turn the Android Beam to share data – contacts, photos, videos and music – just encostrando a phone in the other.
The two devices need to have NFC and be with the Android Beam enabled to joke work. For this go to Settings & gt; More & gt; and activate the NFC (Android Beam). Then just open the content you want to share and lean on your cell phone from buddy to watch the magic happen.
(Hint: turn off the NFC when not in use to save battery)
Type faster with Swype
The Swype technology is not known by everyone who has Android, but once you start using it, it is hard to go back. In addition to type on your keyboard in the traditional way, you can also slide your finger from letter to letter to form a word. Seems weird if you’ve never tried, but do the test and you will see that in addition to intuitive method accelerates the speed with which you write in the cell and, moreover, makes it much easier to type with one hand (especially if the screen of your phone is too big for your hand)
Unlock the main screen with your face
You use a password to unlock the screen of the Android? So is losing the opportunity of the cell recognize your face and unlock just because he knows it’s you in front of him. To enable this feature, go to Settings & gt; Security and Lock screen, and select ‘Face Unlock’ and then follow the settings. Activate the ‘Verification living presence’ function to prevent someone unlock the phone with a picture of yourself (in this mode, you need flash to unlock the unit.)
Silence the phone and the screen printe with hand gestures
In settings, go to ‘moving palm’ option and enable such functions. Hence, when the phone rings at an inopportune time, you can silence it simply by placing your hand on the screen or take a print sliding his palm over the screen.
Access tabs open on your desktop
Just use Google Chrome logged into your Google account on all devices. Open the browser on your smartphone and on the menu, go to ‘other devices’ option to see the tabs that are open on your desktop and access them.
Make a movie using your photos and videos
You’ll need Android 4.3 for this tip: this version of the operating system, you can create short films using the videos and photos that you recorded on the device. The step-by-step is the following: first, the Google+ app, you must enable the ‘Auto Backup’ function in settings. Then at the photos Google+, click the little camera on top. Then just choose the content you want to turn into a movie, theme and background music.
Keep screen turned on while you look at her (but only goes for Samsung)
It’s scary, but you can enable a function that is, in practice, permission for the Samsung detect whether or not you are looking at the screen and, if so, to hold on. Go Configuraçõs, Smart Screen and Stay Smart.
Unlock your mobile using Single Ticket
This tip also uses NFC technology and a full tutorial on how to make the magic happen can be found on Buzzfeed.
Is iPhone user? Read 10 things you did not know your iPhone could do.
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