8 Things You Didn't Know Your Old Phone Can Do


# Media Player on Your TV

You can also connect your smartphone to your TV if it has the option of connecting with HDMI cable. All you have to do is plug in one side of the cable to your phone and the other end to your TV. Once you are connected, then what appears on your phone will appear on your TV, whether it is pictures, games, videos or surfing the web. It is more efficient to use an SD card of 32 GB or 64 GB so that you can copy as many movies and songs as you like.

# Use it as a Wireless Router

You can use your smartphone as a router if it has a setup called tethering or internet sharing. Most smartphones like iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Android phones provide such setup. You can turn your phone into a wifi hotspot by using a 3G sim that has a good data plan. In this way u can carry your phone in your pocket and use wifi on other devices. It is advised that you have a password to protect the hotspot from other people using it.

# Dedicated Word Processor

With the Office being offered free for all the iOS and Android devices now, you can install Word on your older smartphone/tablet or choose from many alternatives to transform it into a dedicated word processor. This would be good option to consider if you have a tablet stand and Bluetooth keyboard making it much easier to write and edit word documents on the tablet.

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