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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...]

Review of Samsung A50s Smartphone With Optimization Tips

After J7 Max, it is a good set from Samsung thinking their rule of hefty pricing. It records 4K/UHD video, has an on-screen ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, the screen is beautiful, it has Dolby Atmos. Samsung Galaxy A50s is not powered by a Snapdragon processor. What it offers is a good-enough performance with modern sensor and display for everyday use. Smartphones for regular may get lost or … [Read more...]

What is NFC? How You Can Use NFC?

In our one series of article on IoT, we talked about NFC. Some obvious question arises such as what is NFC, how we can use NFC. Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short-range, high-frequency wireless communication technology which enables an exchange of information. The distance is about 10 cm in the general case. This technology is an extension of ISO/IEC 14443 standardizing proximity cards … [Read more...]

Android Apps to Control Devices Connected to IBM Watson IoT

It is too common to find some ready to use Android app which can perform basic works, such as some apps which can work to control ESP32 Arduino LED from IBM Watson IoT. As for receiving notification from IBM Watson IoT platform, we previously described one app named Pushover for push notification after routing the backend on Node-RED. However, for our previous guide to control ESP32 Arduino … [Read more...]

Technically Best Smartphones for Text and Video Chat

Text and video chat have become important ways of communicating via smartphone. Even just a few years ago, not even 50% of smartphone users used mobile applications for video calls on a regular basis. Unfortunately, till today commonly the smartphones are not judged for their ergonomics and features for text chat and video chat. The differences between various smartphones not only limited to the … [Read more...]

ESP32 Arduino : Develop Android App to Receive Push Notification

We just want to make sure that our readers can develop an Android app for our IoT examples. We will not go in to many details as there are existing nice guides with Android source code by the others. It is Not Difficult to Develop Android App to Receive Push Notification ESP32 Arduino as There Are Source Code, Easy Web UI Tools. You need not to be an expert Android app developer to just develop an … [Read more...]

How to Convert Paper Documents to PDF (Pro Quality for Free)

There Are Multiple Ways to Convert Paper Documents to PDF. Printing services and offices use costly professional machines to do it in easy way. This guide mainly utilizing our commonly available home gadgets to get professional result. Modern smartphones are more convinient than the PCs for closer checking of the document by easy pinch & zoom. Also we commonly use smartphones to share the … [Read more...]

5 Personal Finance/Money Management Apps for Android

Wish you had more money to spend? Well, you know what they say: a penny saved is a penny earned. And with these 5 personal finance apps, not only do you save money but also optimize your money management and budgeting to such an extent that you are always in the black, maybe even with some extra cash to spare. So, here is a list of 5 apps for Android that each serves slightly different purposes in … [Read more...]

Android Smartphone Qualcomm DAC Sound Quality Hack : Part 1

Peculiarly, the manufacturers sell under-optimized or outdated coding resulting lower quality sound. This is an introductory article on tweaking Android acoustics. We need to hack to enable all the hardware features of Qualcomm 420 and above. Here is Part 1 of Android Smartphone Qualcomm DAC Sound Quality Hack. If you are fully newbie, you should read our few older article including SoC, Latest … [Read more...]

Review of Vivo Y71 : Unique Features (Vivo’s FunTouch OS)

Probably you have read many reviews of Vivo Y71 elsewhere. But most of them are not closest to perfect. These days, "assembling" smartphones is not quite difficult. There is Android OS (which needs some payment to Google for commercial production) for just installing and selling, GPU technology of Smartphones is SoC based. Here is a Review of Vivo Y71. An Obvious Comparison Comes With Samsung J7 … [Read more...]