ireneidiva:

After being on nairaland for donkey years you still spell 'monika'.

Is your memory slipping? For better or worse, one of the advantages of carrying a smartphone around is that you don’t have to leave it to your brain to remember everything.

And you don’t necessarily have to download a fancy app, either. There are any number of ways to have your pocket computer jog your memory.

1) Take a Picture
This is one of my favorite methods to remember things, largely because it’s the easiest. You don’t need to download an app and type in information. Just fire up the camera and snap.

Now you can go back and see exactly what that letter said, the warning label on that new power drill, the ingredients in a recipe, or anything else you want to recall later.

You can then pull up the image from any device if you have your photos set to automatically upload to Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, a personal hard drive, or your cloud service of choice.

2) Set a reminder
Increasing the amount of effort involved only slightly, you can set up a reminder. One method you can use on any mobile phone, regardless of whether it’s smart or not, is setting an alarm.

If it’s going off at an odd time of day, chances are you brain cells will instantly remember why. But even if they don’t, Android devices typically let you assign each alarm a label. It will then stick with you for the rest of the day.

Alternatively, you can use Google services. Try saying, “OK Google, remind me to check the mail at 7 PM.” Google Now will take care of the rest.

Or you could do the same thing using Inbox by Gmail or Google Keep if you prefer not to talk into your phone without a person at the other end.

3) Leave a note
Another approach is to use your phone or tablet as a paperless notepad. Fire up a note-taking app like Google Keep or the one that likely came with your phone and jot down a few words.

You can return to them at any time, and unlike traditional stickies, you don’t have to throw away old ones because you’re running out of space. In this day and age, you can carry around as many notes as you like.

4) Email Yourself
Shoot yourself an email. No, your message won’t get lost. You will receive a notification just as if the virtual letter had arrived from another person. Leave it unread in your inbox as a steady reminder, or store it in a folder alongside other things you don’t want to forget.

People have been using this approach long before smartphones hit the scene, but with email more accessible than ever, so is mailing yourself a reminder.

5) Pocket, Instapaper, Firefox Reading List
Let’s be real. When you’re sitting at a computer, half the stuff you want to remember consists of webpages that you don’t have time to get to right this moment. This problem is widespread enough now that you don’t have to bookmark them away anymore.

Someone has come out with an easier way. Simply create a Pocket or Instapaper account and get back to them whenever you can. These apps will even reformat the page to make the content distraction-free and easier to consume.

Those of you who use Firefox don’t even need to install a separate app. It comes with a Reading List where you can store the sites you want to return to later.

6) Keep a To-Do List

Maybe the task at hand requires a to-do list. Well, don’t worry, Android won’t let you down. There are any number of apps out there that will let you organize tasks however you wish. You can keep things simple and only enter a straightforward list. Or you can create tags, assign labels, apply colors, and enter enough background information for each task to turn your to-do list into a journal.

Google Keep or your phone’s default app will satisfy this role if your needs are small. Otherwise, there’s the likes of Evernote, Todoist, Remember the Milk, and many, many others.

Think You Can Remember?
Hopefully one of these methods will help you remember what to pick up from the supermarket, how to put together that bookshelf, the location of the next meeting, and the time to drop your kid off at music practice. With so much to keep up with, it’s okay to turn to help.

But these approaches are hardly the only ways you can use your phone or tablet to stay on top of things. What resourceful methods have you come up with?

https://www.infinix.club/ng/forum/824/1703318

Smartphones make us dumb. If not dumb, then lazy. That’s the fear that many of us have going through our minds, anyway.

Scientists are trying to determine the effects of smart technology and constant Internet access on our brains, but that’s a matter only time will tell. As for the question of whether that effect is good, well, that’s one we can all answer for ourselves — and it’s one we can do something about.

Has Owning a Smartphone Changed You?

Take this example. Can you remember what life was like back before you got your first computer? Do you remember how you used to watch TV shows on cable, commercials and all? You couldn’t just search for a show and start watching it instantly. You couldn’t even search for a show to see when it was coming on. You remembered the time slots mentioned during the breaks, you studied TV guides, or you asked someone who knew. We all walked around with databases in our minds of the shows we liked, when they came on, what channels to turn to, and the numbers associated with each of them.

You could say that back in those days, all of us wasted a lot of time finding out the answers to questions that we can now get in an instant. But it’s also the case that the act of getting those answers helped us better retain the information. Why bother committing to memory things you can pull up as needed? Ten years have passed since the last time I had to remember someone’s phone number.

If you pause to think about just how much life has changed in the past decade or two, you might notice that you’ve lost skills or developed negative habits. Do you take the time to fix things now that you can order new stuff off the Web in an instant? Do you still read as many books now that social media apps provide you with a constant supply of new material? Do you plant yourself in front of the TV all day long now that you can watch every episode of your favorite show back-to-back and commercial free?

I can’t answer these questions for you. Some of you may feel that the changes in recent years have only made your life better. This may even be true. But if you do feel like you could benefit from changing some of the phone habits you’ve developed, here are a few ways you can start.

1) Use Apps That Provide True Utility
Apple, Google, and Microsoft all boast about the number of apps you can find in their app stores. But how many apps do any of us actually need? And how many of them are actually any good?

I can point you to any number of apps that sound good on paper. Heck, I do it all the time. But I can also say that I don’t use most of the apps I write about on a daily basis. That would be too time consuming. I love Android, but I don’t want that affection to come at the expense of my other relationships.

So what’s worth keeping around? Again, only you can answer that, but here’s some help. Which apps offer functionality that you would hate to have to do without? I’m not disabling the camera on my phone — it’s too useful. And now that I’ve grown accustomed to using a navigation app to get around, I’m not going back to printing out directions. I refuse to start carrying around a dedicated MP3 player again when I already have a gadget in my pocket that can do the same thing, and while I don’t spend all that much time browsing the Internet on my phone, I’m still going to keep a Web browser around.

Not having to drive around aimlessly looking for parking is a smartphone luxury I don’t want to give up.

But do I really care about the number of steps I take a day? Should I receive a notification the exact second breaking news happens somewhere in the world? Do I actually need to buy a product so spontaneously that I carry around a half dozen shopping apps? And now that I think about it, these fast food apps might even take a few years off my life.

It’s tempting to flood a brand new phone with programs to make it feel like we’re getting maximum use out of the device, but then we feel compelled to make ourselves actually use the stuff we’ve installed. Try getting rid of most of them and see which ones you miss.

2) Install Fewer Games (and Other Time Killers)

The games on your phone are significantly cheaper than the ones you can get for consoles, dedicated handhelds, and even the PC. They also don’t require buying separate hardware. But there’s a catch to mobile gaming that, at first glance, sounds like a plus. Your games are always with you.

A home console is attached to a TV, meaning you have to be at home to play them. Yet even with this restriction, it’s easy to go overboard and spend too many hours playing games. With a smartphone, you can entertain yourself every second that someone isn’t looking at you. It takes a lot of self control not to tap on that icon when you really want to get to the next level.

But now that you’ve spent countless hours flinging birds, crushing candy, and defending towers, are you any better off? Think about all the other things you wanted to do that you never got around to. You always said you wanted to be a better cook. There’s a stack of books you wanted to read. Getting a gym membership may be pricey, but there was that routine you wanted to try at home. This isn’t about someone else telling you that time spent playing games is time wasted. This is about you making time to do all the things you’ve been telling yourself you’ve wanted to do for years.

And really, there’s no reason to limit this to games. Do you find yourself flicking the Facebook icon just because it’s there, only to look away from your News Feed forty minutes later? Do you flick through images on Imgur and Tumblr the second you start feeling idle? You know which apps are your productivity suckers.

It’s okay to be bored. There’s nothing wrong with kicking around rocks while waiting on the bus. It’s perfectly fine to spend the time sitting on the toilet contemplating the color of the wall. It’s in these moments that our imaginations come alive. The reason so many of us do our best thinking in the shower is because it’s the one time we can’t spend distracting ourselves with something else.

3) Seek out Longer Content
“Kids these days have no attention span,” says every adult who has to deal with children. If it’s not them, it’s their parents, those absent-minded office workers who can’t stay focused on any one thing for long. Crap, I’m talking about you and me.

Much of the content on the Web is easily skimmed or consumed quickly. Smartphones have only exasperated the issue. Who would have ever thought people would go crazy over six-second-long videos? With all manner of entertainment crammed into a single device, content meant to be digested in seconds, and notifications coming in at any time, smartphones aren’t immediately conducive to maintaining concentration.

The thing is, you can find just as much long-form content in a smartphone as you can in any library, if not more. You just have to seek it out.

Books? You can read them on your phone. Magazines? Those too. And while the experience is different, the words are still the same. Not only that, you can find lengthy articles scattered across websites.

Just because much of the Web consists of short posts doesn’t mean you can’t find plenty of feature-length articles to occupy your time. When combined with the right service for reading websites later, you might find that your smartphone is actually your best tool for reading quality work. Having it always on you might actually mean you read more than you otherwise would.

4) Don’t Do Everything on One Device
Just because you can use your phone to replace your computer, books, magazines, newspapers, MP3 players, GPS units, cameras, TV, game consoles, alarm clocks, radios, calculators, and umpteen other things, that doesn’t mean you should.

Yes, it may seem space-saving and cost-cutting to use one device to do as much as possible, but think about how that means you’re spending your day. You get home from work and catch up on the news. Then you spend thirty minutes with a good book before watching two episodes of your favorite show. Then you play Fieldrunners for a bit before catching up on a few blogs and heading to bed.

And the entire time, you were staring at your phone.

Spending half an hour with a physical book and then putting it down to pick up a game controller provides you with two fundamentally different experiences. You hold them differently. They don’t feel the same. You alter how you sit.

It may not seem like much to switch from one sedentary activity to another, but at least you’re not physically doing the exact same thing all day. And you might not be so obsessive about a single device once you’re again spreading out your passions among different things.

5) Be Mindful of Where You Are
A simple rule of thumb is that if you’re out in public, not alone, and not sitting, then you probably shouldn’t be staring at your phone. Friends and colleagues don’t want to talk to someone who seems to be ignoring them. Drivers and other pedestrians don’t want to have to deal with people who aren’t watching where they’re walking.

And who wants to live in a beautiful world inhabited by people who would rather consume it through the images on portable screens?

What does this have to do with being dumb? Well, intelligence isn’t just about book smarts and memory span. Are you able to sustain an engaging conversation? Do you look people in the eye? Are you aware of the changes in the world around you? Did you intend to walk into that low-hanging tree branch?

Don’t fall into the trap of having your smartphone cut you off from the outside world and the people in it.

You Don’t Have to Get Rid of Your Phone
Your smartphone isn’t going to kill you or strip away all of your cognitive functions. It’s simply a tool, just like books and maps. But you should be conscious of the ways your own usage is hindering your life.

We don’t need to debate the science of whether smartphones are addictive to notice that many of us are addicted to the things. If you read the same book first thing in the morning, last thing at night, for hours after work, and in all of your idle time, we’d say you were addicted to that too.



It’s not bad to search for things when you have a question. Just occasionally supplement quick answers with in-depth information. It’s healthy for your brain to analyze problems and think for itself on a semi-regular basis. Don’t let it get out of shape.

Every now and then, step away from your smartphone. Don’t worry, you will see each other again. It’s just that too much time together isn’t good for any relationship. Go out for a walk. Check out a play. And when you get back, resist the urge to snuggle up right before bed. You will sleep better that way.

Just don’t think of this as forever. Your phone will still be there to capture those priceless moments. It will help you find your way home after making a wrong turn. It will let you video chat with family members on the other side of the world. Smartphones enrich our lives in ways that it would be a shame to give up just because, like everything else, they’re best when used in moderation.

I hope this has been stimulating. Now it’s your turn.

In what ways do you use your phone, and what changes would you make to tweak your life for the better? What recommendations do you have for others? Share them with everyone in the comments below!

https://www.infinix.club/ng/forum/824/1703372

nice write up

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felasey1:
i just might change my s4 to s5

That will be nice

mo price na

Mr2kul:
Please does the Infinix hot 8 support MTN 4G network?

of course baba

Realtalk20:
[[s]quote author=flyingdagger post=83839271]liar you are[/quote[/s]]

A marketer for transsion you are

what does marketer mens ?

bigstan11787:
Does it has a front flash light? That's the problem with S4,

it has

Realtalk20:
Another garbage phone

In less than ,6 months the professor of this phone won't be able to open a PDF file without hanging

This phone is another example of why Transsion is a fraudulent company

On paper these specs look great right ? Wrong that's where it ends on paper

Everything is fake and false about this phone

Stay clear for your peace of mind

liar you are

Hi guys

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You get a HD Bluetooth headset free!

This runs from 6th to 12th November.

Toma2:

Wetin this one mean

e mean say make you update your phone if you never do ogbeni

Good one from the brand

Yooo its another super thursday
lets a play a game

You wake up and see 24 missed calls notification

What comes to your mind first?

S4 users !

System updates are out!

The latest updates has started rolling out for S4 users

Have you updated your device ?

The new update as expected comes with lots of added features such as

1. Upgraded Google security patch.
2. Imported google lens function for more acuracy when using Google lens
3. Updated Google GMS package

Not only that, this update ensures

Your device gets optimised for better system stability and performance
Improved rear and front camera effect and performance.
Fixing of other issues such as system lags etc


NB: Please ensure your device is powered on with at least 50% before updating your device.

https://www.infinix.club/ng/forum/824/1452354

Kalapizim:
flyingdagger confirmed they played on his S4.

yes it works on mine

Azeiz:
Please, my phone's (Infinix Note 4) Proximity sensor is not function anymore, which make it unable to off the screen when I'm making calls.
Experience user help me fix the problem!!

it could be your screen guard blocking your proximity sensor

Azeiz:
Please, my phone's (Infinix Note 4) Proximity sensor is not function anymore, which make it unable to off the screen when I'm making calls.
Experience user help me fix the problem!!

Are you using screen guard ?

Yewandequeen:
Is it only me or what self gan. When I play voice note on whatsapp, it's always showing whatsapp has stopped open app again. Who else is experiencing this and what's the solution?

Is it after updating you observed this ?

This here is what a masterpiece looks and feels like.

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agoro2u:


Pls explain better or tell me steps to do it.
Thanks

go to settings, select ucbroswer app and restrict background data.

agoro2u:


Am using ucbrowser but the page is loading without even lunching ucbrowser

reset your app preference

Today is truly the end of an era. Google announced that Android Q will not get a dessert nickname. A tradition that has been going on for a decade has come to a close. Android Q will simply be called “Android 10” and Google has rolled out a new look for the Android brand to go along with it.


Google claims they’ve heard feedback over the years about the dessert nicknames not always being understood by the global community. The example they give is for L and R, which are not distinguishable in some languages. So if someone says “Android Lollipop,” it’s not clear that they are talking about the version after KitKat. Google also talks about how some of the treats they’ve used were not desserts or very popular in some regions.

It’s important to Google that the names are clear on a global scale. From now on, Android versions will go simply by their number. We’re not sure what this means for the beta releases that have typically gone by a single letter (Android P, Android Q, etc).


Next, Google has announced a redesigned logo and color scheme for the Android brand. The last time Google updated the brand was back in 2014. The new logo introduces the familiar Android robot, head only, in a new shade of green. The Android wordmark is now in black (or white).

The final release of Android 10 will feature this updated branding when it’s released in the “coming weeks.” What do you think of this news? We’re a little sad to see the fun dessert nicknames come to an end. It was always something that set Android apart from the likes of iOS, Windows, and other operating systems. A silly, unique tradition that showed Google didn’t take themselves too seriously. RIP.

How did you prefer your infinix notch screen display ?

Do you know you can hide the notch ?
water drop or regular notch or no notch at all

chingle5:


It's actually true I have seen it before in one of my friends phone it is a bug and I don't know if it as been fixed

then it should have been fixed

stanboy28:
how did u fix it...


Pls screenshot ur "about phone" details..I wanna see your software version....not android version..

Like this below..I wanna see if it was becos u Updated ur software

didn't fix anything, although my phone is on the latest update.

Cannonleo:
a link to the apk for pes 19 please

i downloaded it from
playstore

stanboy28:
is it the s4 6gb ram version
Cos the 3gb ram version flies and the graphics is bad

3GB RAM version