A smartphone is a combination of mobile phone and PDA (personal digital assistant) built on a mobile operating system, such as Android, iOS, or Windows. Questions about smartphones are off-topic unless they are explicitly about issues related to interfacing the phone with a computer.
Questions tagged [smartphone]
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Use a smartphone as a Dial Up Modem?
Most cellphones today have an audio jack that works as both output and input for sound. That's why there's headphones today with built in microphones for making phone calls. Now then, is it possible, using this two way audio jack, to make a dial up…
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How does wifi determine a device's location?
When I use any location based app or website, how does it know that my laptop or smartphone is where it is?
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Set specific USB ports to charge-only
On Windows, is there any way to make some USB ports to be charge-only? I do not want to alter the settings of the devices; I want to change the settings of the USB ports on Windows, so that any device I connect to those ports will be only…
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Charging a USB-C Samsung Phone with my MacBookPro over USB-C
I just ran out of battery on my Samsung smartphone and wanted to charge it by connecting my MacBookPro to the USB-C smartphone.
As a result my MacBook got charged and the smartphone worked as a battery pack and the phone finally died.
how can I…
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How to transmit audio for a call from mobile phone to PC via WiFi and back?
In a few days I'll lead a meeting in a room that does not provide any phone signal. However, during this meeting we have to call a person who can not attend this meeting in person.
To make the call possible, I had the following idea:
Place some…
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In how far is the Ampere number important for USB powered devices?
Currently, I have three devices that can be charged via USB:
Digicam: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ41
Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition
Smartphone: Nexus 4 (LG)
They have three different chargers:
The output of the three…
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Hypothetically, can I swap processors between a smartphone & a desktop?
When manufacturers mention the speeds of smartphone processors, is it right in my understanding that the speeds between smartphone processors and desktop processors are comparable?
In other words, can I hypothetically swap the Snapdragon Krait 1.5…
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How to access localhost from VirtualBox using a smartphone?
I want to access VirtualBox's localhost using a smartphone for me to see how the website looks like in a phone.
More Details:
Host OS - Windows 7 Pro
Guest OS - Ubuntu 16.0.4 LTS
SmartPhones' OS - Android and iOS
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Why in 'tech-wars', the main actors are almost always only two?
Why in 'tech-wars', the main actors are almost always only two?
Some few examples taken from very different fields of application:
browser war (Netscape vs IE, or nowadays Firefox vs Chrome)
smart-phone war (iPhone vs Android)
OS war (MS Windows vs…
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What technical benefits does a router have over tethering with a smartphone?
What benefits does a traditional router and modem grant over the same functionality from a modern smartphone?
I consider things such as reliability, accessibility and speed as major reasons to disregard smartphones as a sole use for my own purposes.…
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What is the easiest way to change the creation time for large amounts of files so that they are sorted alphanumerically?
I am trying to get images to display in a specific order on as many smartphones as possible without them requiring specific software, and the easiest way to do this is to change the creation times of the images so that the first file…
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Can a device ruin an SD Card or microSD card?
I have a device that I think might be ruining microSD storage cards (SanDisk cards).
The device happens to be a smartphone (an older Samsung Galaxy S), but this question applies to any device.
Is it reasonably possible that a device could ruin…
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Sharing RAM with an iPhone/smartphone?
Forgive me ahead of time if this question sounds dumb.
Is there anyway that an iPhone or any smartphone in general could borrow/share the memory from a PC (or any of it's other similar resources). I would quite assume but correct me if I'm wrong…
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How do I use the PC's headset for smartphone calls, when connected through USB?
When my smartphone (Nokia 500) is connected to the desktop (Win7 x64) though USB, I want the smartphone audio to default to the PC headset for calls.
How do I do that?
Thanks.
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How to control music playing on my phone from my computer?
Is there any way to control music on a phone from a computer?
It would be amazing to be able to type something like "Play house album" in the command line or some other computer interface, and have the appropriate music start playing on my phone…
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