Over the years, technology have brought us more than enough life changing products, innovations and several other outcomes that cannot be numbered. One of such life changing innovation technology has gifted us with is a device known as the “Smartphone”.

I’m very much sure that a huge chunk of the world’s population own a smartphone and a very large percentage of smartphone owners have a very good knowledge of how to handle one and use for some basic activity like making and receiving call, surfing the internet, taking pictures and videos, setting alarms and reminders among others.

But today, we would be looking at some functions of a smartphone that aren’t much oblivious to a whole lot of smartphone owners. Ready, set, go!

CONTROLLING LIGHT SWITCHES

Smartphone owners can replace their standard light switch with a smart version such as the WeMo Light Switch. You can get it done by Syncing it to your smartphone. Voila! You can turn your lights on or off anytime, anywhere… even if you forgot to turn the lights off after leaving your home.

You can also programme your lights to turn on or off at specific times each day, as well as set up schedules and triggers other actions to turn them on or off. The Philips Hue Personal Wireless Lighting Kit also lets you gradually dim, brighten or even change the colour of your lights.


MANAGE YOUR THERMOSTAT

With the Nest Learning Thermostat, you can use the compatible app on your smartphone to adjust the temperature away from home. Nest also learns and adapts to your schedule and emails you monthly energy reports. Isn’t that amazing?!?



MEASURE SPEED, HEIGHT AND DISTANCE

With your smartphone, you can measure the speed of people or moving objects with app such as Speed Gun (Android) and SpeedClock (iOS) which are great apps used in sporting events like baseball, football or track and field.

Apps that measures the height and distance of objects using your camera lens also exist. Apps like Smart Measure Pro, while iOS users can try Dot Measure Pro are available on the Android platform.
Read more: https://techtip.com.ng/five-amazing-yet-unknown-things-smartphone-can/

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