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Discover the powerful Samsung Wi-Fi Connectivity Labs Settings, including how to use the Home WiFi Inspection tool to analyze your network. We’ll explain what L4S is and how it can improve your internet experience. See how to make your phone switch to mobile data faster, with and without the help Read more…
Without intentionally being malicious, friends and even many technicians will espouse myths about mobile phone charging. Often what you hear may sound true because it used to be correct about an older battery technology, but it isn’t anymore. Here are 10 common mobile phone battery myths, debunked: 10 – Myth: Read more…
We recently wrote an article explaining how to enable GPU hardware acceleration in your browser to reduce the load on yor CPU. That got us to thinking about what YouTube commonly uses three primary video codecs for delivering content, each with different characteristics and levels of adoption: Summary: The specific Read more…
We had a client with a Samsung S23 FE that he had problems unlocking, then once he got around that he had no desktop icons. Worse, reboot and power off do not do anything! What to do?!?! In this case the Launcher UI is corrupted and needs a hard reset. Read more…
The Benefit of AMP: AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) was introduced by Google in 2015 as a way of improving the web page viewing experience on small mobile devices, often with slow connections and we have been struggling with it ever since. The core promise of AMP was blisteringly fast mobile Read more…
“Multiview” is Samsung’s term for split screen viewing apps and while we understand why some people like it, we hate it and want to turn it off. How To Disable Split Screen MultiView Generally How To Disable Split Screen MultiView on Edge Panel Apps If you are like us and Read more…
It is certainly true that Cornings Gorilla Glass, has made massive improvements to the longevity of cell phones, but we still just shake our heads when we see people using phones without protective covers. Mobile Phone Glass: A Brief History Glass Type Key Impact/Drop Resistance Key Scratch Resistance Before Gorilla Read more…
We have a very brief article explaining what happened to live wallpapers on new Samsung Galaxy cell phones. It also explains the differences between “motion wallpaper”, “animated wallpaper”, and “video wallpaper” but it does not explain how to change to an animated, motion, or video wallpaper for free. One of Read more…
If you liked Samsung Live Wallpaper, prepare for disappointment. In a word, they are ‘replaced’. What Was Samsung Live Wallpaper? Samsung live wallpapers were dynamic backgrounds that animated on the home screen or lock screen of Galaxy devices. Unlike static wallpapers, they could move, react to touch, or change based Read more…
Readers of the site we’ll know that we’ve just upgraded all of our staff to Samsung Galaxy S25‘s and then added the new phones to our handy Windows Phone Link (the app that connects cell phones to Windows 11) . However, we found that Windows Phone Link was no longer Read more…
Nits are a way to measure how bright a screen is. Imagine a standard candle you might light in a dining room or on the side of your bath tub. One nit is roughly the amount of light given off by one candle shining on one square meter. So, if Read more…
The short answer is a USB cable is much quicker and more reliable than using Wi-Fi. While Samsung’s Smart Switch app lets you use wireless transfers, a direct connection via a USB-C cable leverages the higher data transfer capabilities of the phones’ USB hardware. The Samsung S22 is equipped with Read more…
The Samsung Galaxy S25, released on February 7, 2025, offers several notable improvements over previous Samsung Galaxy products, like the S22, S23 and S24. The question isn’t, “is the S25 better” but “is the S25 worth the money”? Here’s a breakdown of the key upgrades: Performance: Display: Cameras: Battery: Software Read more…
The best mobile phone CPU is nearly always the newest cell phone CPU and in 2025 close to true. Without much doubt the Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU is the king of the cell phone castle right now. Here is a table we built to support a video review of the Read more…
Experience the free Samsung Camera translate feature! Translate menus, signs, newspapers, and more in any language, fast, easy and free . This is one of the best travel tips and tricks we know of. 0:00 Introduction0:21 What Devices Photo Translate Works on0:45 Demonstration of Free Translation1:38 How To Setup Photo Read more…
My 94 year old father was really getting annoyed with the locking codes on his Samsung S23 Fan Edition and considering he doesn’t do anything financial on his phone, like banking, I decided it was best to remove the PIN code he was using. To remove the locking pin and Read more…