In order to delete apps from your smartphone, depending on your OS and phone manufacturer, you have to follow these steps.
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How to take a screenshot on your phone
Use a screenshot to quickly share whatever is on your screen. We'll teach you how to take a screenshot on your Android smartphone or iPhone.
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How to make your Android feel faster
This is a simple trick to speed up Android that doesn't require root or tinkering and tampering deep within the settings.
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How to watch YouTube videos at a faster speed
Read this to find out how to change YouTube playback speed and watch videos at a faster speed. We also show you how watch videos at a slower speed.
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Dual Smartphone Cameras Explained: The best photo fit for you?
What separates phone cameras from more professional cameras? At this point, largely surface area, where DSLRs have much larger image sensors. Those sensors take up a lot more space, and as sensor size increases, so does lens size.
And we have flirted with larger sensors on phones, as many in our audience might remember the Lumia 1020 and its Oreo disc back. This phone’s sensor is roughly 3 times larger than the sensor in the iPhone 7, but compared to an entry level DSLR, it’s one seventh the size. Those larger DSLR sensors allow proper cameras to use larger pixels and soak up more light to create more photographic images. DSLR’s also benefit from the ability to swap lenses, customizing the camera for specific photo situations.
How can we get around these space limitations on our phones? The newest camera trend for 2016 is including multiple camera sensors, but not all systems are equal. The three examples we’ll focus on for this video are the iPhone 7 Plus, The Huawei Mate 9, and the LG V20. What are the differences? Which might be best for you? Let’s dig in.
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Improve your smartphone photography: What is metering?
Digging through our viewer mailbag, we got a question about photography.Does your OP3 over expose & blow out areas not in focus when u tap to focus?-TGCHave you ever focused a phone camera at an object and then produced a photo which was way too bright or too dark? We’ve gotten several questions about this “bug” on various smartphone cameras, and we’re sorry to say this is probably a feature, not a bug.The issue is likely metering, and understanding how your camera decides to adjust exposure based on what you focus on. Let’s dig into this setting on your ...
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Pocketnow Challenge July: Best fireworks photo from a smartphone?
We’ve been teasing our new series for the last couple weeks, and now it’s time for a showdown! Welcome to the Pocketnow Challenge, where we test real world smartphone usage by pitting two Pocketnow editors against each other.Our first major challenge is a photography battle between long time editor and professional photographer Adam Lein, facing off against the newest video producer on the site Juan Carlos Bagnell. To celebrate the Fourth of July, these two photogs ...
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9 Tips to improve battery life on your iPhone
Yesterday we took a look at how to improve battery life on Android phones, but fret not iPhone users! We haven’t forgotten about you folks using iOS, and we’ve got a handful of tips for improving run time on your phones too. In fact we have one EXTRA tip that those Android folks didn’t get…We use mobile devices pretty aggressively these days. Think back to where we were five years ago, and we have to acknowledge that we have seen steady and consistent growth in battery ...
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8 Tips to improve battery life on Android phones
It’s a common gripe from smartphone owners. At some point, after the “new phone smell” has worn off, people will start to complain about performance and battery life.We use mobile devices pretty aggressively these days. Think back to where we were five years ago, and we have to acknowledge that we have seen steady and consistent growth in battery technology and capacity. It’s pretty normal these days to have a shockingly thin handset which also backs a respectably large battery. The problem is, battery tech hasn’t improved at the same rate that display, CPU, ...
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IP68? Mil-Spec? Rugged phone standards defined!
How durable is your phone? Or better yet, how confident are you in your phone’s ability to survive daily lifestyle abuse? Do you use your phone “naked”, or is a case a mandatory accessory when leaving the house?We’re seeing some progress with manufacturers advertising more durable build quality for consumer facing devices. No longer just the ultra-tough construction site gadgets, many flagship phones now champion improved drop protection or enhanced water resistance. We currently have the Galaxy S7 Active in ...
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What is USB Type C, and what is it not?
We’re a year into a tech transition. Cables and ports are a big deal. Regardless if you use Android, Windows, or iOS on your phone, you likely have some gadget or accessory with a Micro USB port. Micro USB has become a phenomenally well represented standard, but to move into a new era of devices and services, even a port this ubiquitous eventually needs to evolve.The new standard is USB Type C, and it’s already arrived on a handful of devices. Current Nexus phones, HTC 10, LG G5, OnePlus, and the Lumia 950 all sport this new symmetrical port. So what does USB Type C do? How is it ...
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How to choose the right headphones for you (video)
Audio is a mission critical feature for many smartphone consumers. Listening to music, podcasts, movie and game audio, or simply taking phone calls, good audio hardware can make a huge difference in how you might enjoy those various audio activities. While we’re looking to cover the audio hardware in our phones with more in depth testing, it’s also important to look at what audio devices you’re connecting to your phone. Picking a good pair of ear buds can be almost as important as selecting which ...
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Photography terms defined for smartphone photographers (video)
“We live in an age where the only camera a person might own is the one bolted to the back of their phone.”That phrase is one you’re likely to hear from us more often. We’re stepping up how we review smartphone cameras. If you caught our Real Camera Review of the Asus ZenFone Zoom, you’ll see we want to produce video reviews similar to how we might review a standalone camera. Determining whether a camera is “good” is more involved than just counting how many megapixels the sensor has.Smartphones are ...
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Living on the Edge: how to use the Galaxy Note Edge screen (Video)
The Galaxy Note Edge screen is a 160-pixel-wide strip of pure potential – assuming you know how to use it. Given Samsung’s typically robust software build and the sheer audacity of bolting such a novel addition onto an already feature-packed smartphone, we thought new Galaxy Note Edge owners might appreciate a little tutorial to kickstart their journey into bent-screen bliss. So we cooked up the below video to help you get acquainted with the raddest secondary display since the
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HTC One Camera Feature Tour: Everything You Need To Know (Video)
About this time last year, we shot a video called How To Take Great Photos with the Samsung Galaxy S III. It’s very much an artifact of yesteryear, with a fifty-second intro, hazy interlacing, and one the worst haircuts in my personal history, but people seemed to enjoy it. So much so that when the Galaxy S III’s successor dropped just a few weeks back, we followed up our full ...
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