Special features of android mobile that you may not know

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Special features of android mobile that you may not know

1. Record Video, Click Photo at Same Time

This is an interesting feature and it’s very simple. When you are taking a video simply tap on the screen, the photos will be automatically stored in the phone’s image gallery.

Unluckily this feature is not there in few Android phones, but most of the models have it. Check out yourself whether you Android device can do this or not.

2. Keep Home Screen Clean, Don’t Allows Apps there

It’s true that some useful apps appearing on your home screen is handy, but all the newly downloaded apps coming a sitting at your home screen is annoying. To solve this problem, first head towards the Google Play and then go to the phone’s ‘menu’ and select the ‘settings’. Go and uncheck the ‘Auto-add widgets’. Hence problem solved.

3. Take a Screen Shot, Its Easy

The makers of Android smartphone are many; therefore the method of taking screen shot differs, but it’s not a tough task at all. Have a look at how it works on few popular Android phones.

Samsung Galaxy S III: Power button and volume down button pressed at the same time, the S III screen shot is ready. The method is same for about all Samsung Galaxy models expect for Galaxy Nexus where you have to press power button and the volume down button at the same time.

HTC One X, S, and V: Press the home button and power button together.

Motorola Droid Razr MAXX: With this phone hold the power key and down volume button until you hear the camera shutter click.

4. Smartphone as a USB

You can make your Android device carry your files when you are on the go. Connect you phone to your laptop with a USB cable and make use of Android's storage mode. By the activation of this mode you can transfer files to and fro from you phone to laptop. So now you have an excellent new way to make sure all your important stuffs are always with you.

5. Call your Loved Ones with One Tap

Press and hold on an empty space in your smartphone screen, a menu will pop up from where you should go to ‘shortcuts’ and then select ‘contacts’. Scroll the contacts and choose the one which you want to add. Quite simple!

If you are one among the elite ones who have a got a Jelly Bean update or have a Jelly Bean device then you have to go to the ‘menu’, then to the ‘widgets’ and then slide over one page and choose ‘contacts’ after which you will be encouraged to pick a specific contact.

6. Let you Voice Do the Typing

When you are inside text message, notes app or anything else that requires typing you will always notice that little microphone sitting quietly to the bottom left side of the screen. You can actually make use of this little feature to dictate your message or note, whatever you dictate will come visible on your textbox.

7. Check your Data Usage

Having a smartphone and not craving for more and more data is an impossible task. But when you have a limited data plan and when you are on a tight budget you would like you know how much data used and how much is left.

Your Android device has an inbuilt option to monitor all you data usage and it lets you know how much data your favorite apps are consuming.

To activate this option, head towards the ‘setting’ and select the ‘data usage’ which you will find to the top of the screen. Once you are there you will come to know the detailed data usage of every app and you can check this month wise.

8. No Need of Real Numbers, Have Google Voice

If haven’t downloaded Google Voice app on your Android device yet, then please go to Google Play and install it, it’s totally free. The Google Voice app can make lot of you daily compute easy; it provides voicemail for your phone, allowing you to retrieve voicemail on your phone and computer and it also lets you have different voice mail greetings for selected contacts.

9. Rock you Android with Google Music

Google Music service is booming fast, and with an Android device you can enjoy this service to listen to your favorite tunes without wires. The good news for all music lovers is that the Google Music allows you to store 20,000 songs on cloud from your library for free. With this service you can access all your tracks from anywhere and you can even download new tunes.

10. See Notifications on Lock Screen

Swipe your finger from top to bottom of your locked screen to view the new notifications without unlocking the screen. If you tap on an item, the app will open up right away.

This new feature works only in those devices which runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system or above version i.e. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.