12 Surprising Things Your Android Phone Can Do

[Guest]

Did you know your Android phone can double as a security cam, read USB drives and even run a Web server. These neat tricks are bound to surprise.

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[stevejnb]

Did you know your Android phone can double as a security cam, read USB drives and even run a Web server. These neat tricks are bound to surprise.

12 Surprising Things Your Android Phone Can Do : Read more

You know, while I'm a huge fan of MS's approach to the whole mobile thing, I've got to give Android credit - in a lot of ways, they're the Windows of the mobile world, giving the users the ability to really tap the potential of the devices it runs on. MS should take lessons - they've got a great desktop environment that lets users drive the production of application on it... Why veer towards the Apple model on mobile and not let users go wild creating things for Metro?

 

[weierstrass]

"Display a Start button"
Wow, not even Windows 8 can do that.

 

[stevejnb]

"Display a Start button"
Wow, not even Windows 8 can do that.

Well, you've got them there. I guess someone thought to do this after the tens of millions of Android users who just couldn't figure out how to make the device work without a start button got through to them...

 

[Bill Reinhardt]

Undervolting app aside, I took this as "12 Ways to Kill Your Battery."

 

[house70]

Gotta love the first paragraph of the article.

 

[teh_chem]

"12 Surprising [and not particularly useful] Things Your [some] Android Phone Can Do [with poorly developed apps and some requiring root]"
FTFY Tom's.

 

[ninjustin]

The usb dongle is incredibly useful. I've been carrying one around in my bag for a year or so. It was great for uploading pictures from my Nikon before I got an eyefi but still very useful for thumb drives.