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Hide Folder With Images Appearing in Android Gallery App

When undesired thumbnails from various folders appear in the (Samsung) Gallery App, it irritates us and breaches our privacy. A photoset set of a naked lady beside the thumbnails of grandmother looks is not great showbiz anywhere on this earth. We are used using the Gallery app to view the images captured by a camera and some of the downloaded images. However, Android is designed to scan the whole … [Read more...]

What Makes Samsung Smartphones So Popular?

In one sentence - it is the failure of original Nokia which makes Samsung smartphones so popular. Since the year 2001, both Samsung and Nokia had a hardworking team to integrate camera and add PDA functions to the cellular phones. Samsung was always superior to Nokia in the designing aspect. Indeed, Samsung brought the high-resolution colour display and camera quite earlier than … [Read more...]

Samsung Galaxy Watch LTE Review

This watch is quite different as it contains the circuit for having a SIM. That makes it an independent device like a standalone smartphone. You can make calls, receive calls, use data services without Bluetooth or WiFi connection with the smartphone. It is a master on a network, not a slave. It is capable to use NTP like ESP32 Arduino or smartphones with data connection or computers with active … [Read more...]

Create Own Watch Face For Samsung SmartWatch

Only the watch face factor forced us to purchase almost the same kind of traditional watches. But creativity no longer is chocked with the advent of open-source software running on a smartwatch. Smartwatches do have limitations at present but the watches running some open-source software make your development easier. Samsung is one of the pioneers of Tizen OS. They have a development platform for … [Read more...]

Samsung A50s : Hidden & Less Known Features

Previously we published a review on Samsung A50s. A50s Has a Good Number of Hidden Features Among the Available Smartphones. I am using a Samsung S10 and this A50s (as an upgrade to J7 Max) among the latest sets. S10 costs so higher for official support of VR, DEX, the display, wireless charging, more features of USB-C, 8GB RAM and so on. Many difference exists between S10 and A50s. But I can say … [Read more...]

Latest Smartwatch Technologies : Part II

In the first part of the series on the latest smartwatch technologies, we divided the smartphones in to three categories - (i) cheap (ii) mainstream (companion of a smartphone) and (iii) luxurious watches. That part mostly discussed the hardware features touching the presently available high-end chipsets. In this second part of the series, we will focus on the luxurious smartwatches. For obvious … [Read more...]

Latest Smartwatch Technologies : Part I

Smartwatches are a type of wearable tightly related to Internet of Things. The present form of the smartwatch is hardly 6 years old with some of the smartphone-like abilities and some special ability. The most important part of a smartphone is its display. Most of the future buyers of smartphones have some common questions. Mechanical watches and the hybrid luxurious watches have the resell value … [Read more...]

How to Connect Two Android Phones With USB Cable

Through our some recent articles we published a review of Samsung A50s and discussed about USB Type C. Samsung A50s is kind of starting range of Samsung premium devices - you'll get more options after connecting two Note 10 (both devices support pen and touch with palm rejection). Commonly, most of the entry grade to mid-range smartphones have micro USB, not USB Type C connector. USB OTG works in … [Read more...]

Drawing Tablet & Pen For Android Smartphones

Samsung Note and Apple iPads are not affordable to many of the users. Affording Samsung Note is not like buying a computer. Smartphones are not upgradable unlike desktop or even the laptops. 5G smartphones are going to be norm within the next 2 years. In this scenario, we need something which works with the common drawing applications of Android, like Adobe Photoshop. Luckily, few drawing tablets … [Read more...]

Connect Android CLI (Termux) to IBM Watson IoT Like Raspberry Pi

Android smartphones can be made to partially work like Raspberry Pi like single board computers. That is probably useful for different reasons. To follow the steps of this guide, you need to read our previous guide for the basic setup with Termux. Although in that guide, we mainly focused on how to use Node-RED, there are is the installation of termux-api and some useful links. Any Android device … [Read more...]

How to Use Android Smartphone as IoT Device (Termux, Node-RED)

We can use any modern Android Smartphone something like a Raspberry Pi with a camera, all the sensors & send the collection to any IoT platform. Although it will sound like a complex work it is easy because of a lot of development by many hundreds of developers. There are ready to use Android applications which does the similar job from GUI and connect with IoT platform like IBM Watson IoT … [Read more...]