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Two Ways to Utilize Old Smart Phones

Have you heard of these two ways to utilize your old smart phones?

Using a Smart Phone as a Web Camera

  • your web camera broke
  • you haven’t had the inclination to purchase a webcamera
  • you could use extra web cameras to add a different angle to your video set up or
  • obtain a projector view to documents or products from different angles
  • your webcam is low quality

There are many applications that can provide the capability of using your old phones. One one of this ways is using them as web cameras. Here is one video that discusses two applications and how to install them.

There are many more videos and blogs about these and other similar applications on the internet.

Many suggest that smartphone outperforms the quality of many of the basic webcams in the market. This is definitely something interesting to consider.

Using Your Smart Phone Applications on Your Computer

The other way you can use your old smart phone is through Microsoft’s My Phone Companion.

You must have a specific android phone to use with a specific version of the Microsoft operating system.

This requirement allow you to utilize the sync feature in the system to access many of the phone features on your PC.

With this feature, you can use an old phone for specific task, and not tie up your regular phone.

The application indicates that it contains 200 tips on how to use your smart phone.

If you have old smart phones, and these creative solutions are not a practical for you consider donating the devices.

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