Keeping up with Mobile Phones

Feeling distracted by your phone? Want to be more focused in university, beat procrastination or simply disconnect to study? There’s an App that tackles digital addition by rewarding users for not using their phone.  You can now earn points for not using your smartphone and use them to grab free coffees and cinema tickets. There’s a solution to smartphone addiction and it’s the Hold App. The app was launched in Norway and is targeted at university students, which rewards you for not letting your smartphone distract you. The app was launched in the UK on Thursday and as part of the launch, it announced its partnership with Vue Entertainment, Costa Coffee, Amazon, Planet Organic, Jabees, Onepiece, FlowMotion and organic. It also partners with 170 universities in the UK. How does the Hold app work? University students using the Hold app can gather points for every 20 minutes they do not use their smartphone. The points can be gotten between the hours...

Most of us don’t know how many bells and whistles are around the iPhone hood. Let’s look at awesome things you didn’t know you could do with your iPhone. ·         Shake to Undo To undo typing even if it amounts to an entire paragraph, just give your phone a shake. Shaking your phone will result to a dialogue box which asks if you want to undo. You can click cancel if it was an accident or click the undo button. It’s enabled by default. ·         Make sure a surface level is equal The iPhone’s compass is pretty useful. If you open the compass app and swipe left, you’d find an extra feature. It’s a working level that uses the phone’s gyroscope to detect its orientation. You can do lots with it such as hanging pictures or installing shelves. It would make sure you’ve got a perfectly leveled surface. – Open your compass app and swipe left to use this feature. ·        ...