Own More Than One Smartphone? 5 Things You Can Do

What's better than a smartphone? Two or more smartphones, of course. By combining the power of multiple smartphones or in some cases, by linking them together wirelessly, you can do some of these amazing things.

Here's how to get started ...



1. Link phones together to make a large display

ou might have seen multiple televisions monitors linked together to make one giant display at events or shopping malls. The same concept can be applied to smartphones and tablets.

While there is no ready solution available for purchase right now, there are three ongoing projects which deliver this kind of functionality. An upcoming technology called the Nanoport Magnetic Connector keeps your devices stuck together to form a single giant display.

The company behind the technology claims that the device will be able to transfer data and power quickly from one connected device to another without using any cords. A similar concept developed by the Tokyo University of Technology is called Pinch.

Instead of being a hardware connector, Pinch is an interface that needs to be installed on all devices and it works over Wi-Fi. Once installed on all the devices, you need to place the screens next to each other (in any alignment), 'pinch' the screens together and it will link them to work as a single large display.

If you feel you have to try this for yourself, you can connect multiple devices using their native web browsers and something called the Junkyard Jumbotron. This is a free, web-based tool by MIT that links multiple smartphones or tablets into a large display. This is a tool for the computer geek because it requires you to download the source code and then install it on top of a nod server.



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2. Share & collate photos from multiple phones


At many functions/events/meetups, you'll see a common sight: Numerous people taking photographs from their phones.

However, as a host, getting those photographs from each person is a tedious process. You can try to get everyone to upload them to a shared folder on to a cloud storage service like Dropbox or OneDrive, but there is no guarantee that it will happen.

An easy alternative is to use dedicated collaborative photo sharing apps. One such option is PixWithMe. Android and iPhone users can create a virtual PixBoard for an event (like a wedding, birthday party or any get together) and invite all the guests in advance to download the app.

At the event, your guests can continue to click as many photos as they like. Any photo clicked using the app will be automatically shared on the board and will be viewable by anyone (they can even like or comment on it). If need be, you can password protect the board for security as well as customize it with your personal branding graphics.

If you don't like PixWithMe, you can try Photago. The basics stay the same but it offers 1GB of cloud storage, allows users to join as guests (they don't need to register for an account) and gives you the option to download photos in full resolution. Select Samsung smartphones also come with a 'Group Play' feature that lets a Samsung user share photos and videos with other Samsung smartphones by acting like a wireless access point.

3. Multi-room audio without the expense

You've probably heard of wireless multi-room audio systems; individual speaker systems, synced to each other wirelessly and controllable from one location. It's nice to have the same music piped into different rooms of the house.

There is an option if you have multiple Android devices and multiple Bluetooth (or even wired) speakers -- a free app called Sound Seeder. You need the SoundSeeder app on the controller device (the one with the music) and the other devices (which only receive the audio stream) need to get the SoundSeeder Speaker app. Hook up each Android device to a speaker and you're good to go!

SoundSeeder is a full-featured music player with media library, graphic equalizer, built-in internet radio and it works over Wi-Fi. You can connect up to 16 devices (speakers) simultaneously for synced multi-room audio as long as your Wi-Fi network allows the spread of devices.

iOS users can get a similar app called Seedio which broadcasts audio over Wi-Fi to other nearby iOS devices. You can try the free version of Seedio to see if it works for you (the free version can receive songs but can only broadcast for 10 minutes every hour).

4. Use one Android device as keyboard for another


awesome right!!!!!

Let's say you have an Android phone or tablet connected to a TV to use as a media player.

The problem is, each time you want to change something, you have to get up and operate it. Developers Locnet have made a couple of apps that let you use one Android device as a keyboard or mouse for another. An2An Keyboard and An2An Mouse are the apps.

To get either of them to work, you first need to download the free An2An Remote app on the device that you want to control. In the same way, you can also use multiple Android devices as a keyboard or mouse with a computer.

5. A multi-camera setup

When you look at foot age of an event that has been professionally videographed, chances are that there are multiple shots of the same scene from different angles and they're all edited together seamlessly.

You can do something similar with smartphones and a free app called Vyclone (available for iOS, Android and Windows Phone). You need to download it on multiple devices, film something and upload through the app -- Vyclone will edit them together for you.

For something with much more 'professional level' control, you can consider CollabraCam. This is a $5.99 iOS app that lets you direct up to six other iOS devices in a multi-camera setup.

You can use multiple iPhones (or iPads) to record your own reality show or talk show and then edit them live before uploading directly to YouTube. As the director, you can choose which feed to use and direct the six camera operators with on-screen messages.

All the devices need to be connected to the same Wi-Fi network and they will work with a wireless hotspot -- no internet connection is needed.


which one of the 5 things do you find awesome?


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Cool features..

But why own more than two smartphones

Talkless of wanting to link them to watch a movie or view pix

Whatever happend to my plasma tv

Physika:
Cool features..

But why own more than two smartphones

Talkless of wanting to link them to watch a movie or view pix

Whatever happend to my plasma tv

as smartphones don cheap na, e go better make person buy like six or seven. #teamTecno

profstar:


as smartphones don cheap na, e go better make person buy like six or seven. #teamTecno

Abeg na wetin na

Team.tecno/iphone/samsung/htc ete..

Ma guy wetin man wan do with more than two balls

Tell me abeg

Ok

Nice concept; but Wi-fi is taking the place of infrared.

Physika:


Abeg na wetin na

Team.tecno/iphone/samsung/htc ete..

Ma guy wetin man wan do with more than two balls

Tell me abeg

Physika:


Abeg na wetin na

Team.tecno/iphone/samsung/htc ete..

Ma guy wetin man wan do with more than two balls

Tell me abeg

na true u talk o, no need for 2 balls ,oya cut one of your own commot make we use am play table tennis

Emeka71:
Nice concept; but Wi-fi is taking the place of infrared.

Am not sure you read the post atall

good to know I like the first one

profstar:


Am not sure you read the post atall

I was just expressing an opinion based on the post.