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23 best smartphone tips and tricks to impress your friends

23 best smartphone tips and tricks to impress your friends Become an instant mobile wizard, whether you've got iOS or Android There's more to your smartphone than you might think: underneath its user-friendly, simple surface there are all kinds of hidden features and shortcuts you can take advantage of do more with your handset of choice. Okay, okay - maybe your friends won't be that impressed unless you make your phone vanish into thin air.  But these are all handy little tips you can use to get more out of your mobile, and maybe raise an eyebrow or two along the way. 1. Digitise your documents Thanks to the increasing quality of smartphone cameras, you no longer need a scanner to get all of your paper files up into the cloud.  Evernote ,  Google Drive  and  CamScanner  are three of several apps that can do the job. 2. Identify songs in an instant You can use apps such as  Shazam  or  SoundHound  to work out what you're listening to, but you do

13 Android tips n' tricks that you probably don't know

13 Android tips n' tricks that you probably don't know 1) Enable Developer Mode Ok, this is one of the more widely known tricks, but it’s important nonetheless, so we are going to include it. Navigate to  Settings > About  phone and tap on your phone’s build number seven times. You’ll get an onscreen countdown, eventually followed by a message saying “Congratulations, you are now a developer” 2) Change the Animation Scales For the most part, the latest Android phones already feel very snappy. However, after the latest Nexus 5X only shipped with 2GB of RAM, some users were left feeling a bit underwhelmed by Google’s hugely popular product line. There are also lots of   popular entry-level phones  that come with slower processors and only 1GB or 2GB of RAM. .     One solution is to change your phone’s “Window animation scale”, “Transition animation scale” and “Animator duration scale” from 1x to 0.5x. Granted, it won’t actually make your phone fas