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Is Your Smartphone Smart, Or Is It Just A Phone? Here Are 10 Tricks To Make It Smarter

By Arkadeep Deb, 19 April 2017

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7 The ergonomic-friendly keyboard

It is no news that Android allows you to install 3rd party renditions of stock applications. But did you know that everything, down to the keyboard as well can be changed to suit your need? Yes, you can swipe your fingers over letters instead of typing if that is too slow for you. The accuracy would of course vary from device to device, but you can enhance that by taking a pick of the 3rd party keyboards out there on the Play Store.

The ergonomic friendly keyboard

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8 Split-screen

This unfortunately would be available only on Android Nougat (Android 7.0) and above. If multi-tasking is the name of the game for you then this facility shall make you fall for the Android OS even further. The split-screen option can be invoked by using the Overview function. Once you have chosen which screens to choose from, you can also choose to alter the amount of screen-space to assign to each application.

Split screen

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9 Activate Guest User

In case you haven’t noticed, Lollipop onwards, Android has started maintaining user profiles akin to the familiar counterpart on the desktop. Now we have a Guest user feature as well, which comes into handy if you are lending the phone to anyone and wish to have their preferences distinguished from yours.

Activate Guest User

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10 Developer Options

One of the many reasons people opt for high-end Android smart devices is also because of developer related reasons. High-end phones allow one to overclock their device to a good extent to test the boundaries of Androids nuances. As mentioned above, tapping the Android version number in the About Phone section of your settings invokes the Developer Options. Given the open source nature of Android, if you are a developer, you can take full advantage of the facilities such as the permanent awake function, the process statistics, USB debugging, aggressive Wifi to mobile date takeover among many more!

Developer Options

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