SMARTPHONE MYTHS BUSTED
In this article I will be busting some of the common smartphone myths believed by a lot of people in India.
1) Charging battery full night will harm your mobile-
This myth is believed by a lot of people and I myself used to believe
it until I found out that charging mobile overnight is perfectly safe.
New smartphones( I mean those purchased after 2005) come with enough
safety so your phone doesn't blow up while you are sleeping!
Your mobile
automatically stops taking current after your battery is fully charged.
Moreover you can charge your phone to its full capacity as there is no
activity going on while you are sleeping! Yes you heard it right, You
can & you should charge your phone during you sleep as you can use
it the next day without charging it once again!
2)Clearing RAM will increase the phone speed- Whenever I see someone lock their phone, they always do it after they clear their recent apps. I always ask them why do they do it and always get the same reply that clearing RAM will increase their phone speeds. Technically this is not the case. RAM stores your previously opened applications and every time you clear it your phone has to open the app again from the beginning. Speaking simply, suppose you wear shoes everyday. If you open the lace every time you remove the shoes it is going to take much more time to wear it back the next time. But if you tie your laces loose and directly slip-in your feet it is going to much less time. So when an app is open in the RAM, you open it much quickly when you reuse the app! Try doing this for 1 week and let me know!! But yes, it is going to be very hard to leave the habit of clearing the RAM.
3) All chargers are same- NO, the are not. Duplicate chargers charge your phone much slower and definitely harm your phone. An original charger costs more because it comes with quality. If the tires are weak, the vehicle will crash. So it better to spend little more and buy the original charger for your phone.
4) It is compulsory to have an SD card slot in your phone- New phones nowadays don't come with an external SD card support and company do this to help prevent slowing down of their phone. Moreover you can use cloud services and can easily survive with only 16GB of internal storage as you can store your old files on cloud and free up your device storage.
5) More megapixel camera shoots better- ''Quality always does not come with Quantity''. The number of mega-pixel does not define the quality of your photo. The camera sensor plays a much more bigger role and popular phones nowadays always cheap out on the sensors. iphones have much lesser mega-pixels than android phones but due to their premium sensor quality they click a much detailed photo. How many times in your regular life are you going to actually use 10x zoom! These are marketing strategies of mobile companies to increase their sales and you must be aware of them.
2)Clearing RAM will increase the phone speed- Whenever I see someone lock their phone, they always do it after they clear their recent apps. I always ask them why do they do it and always get the same reply that clearing RAM will increase their phone speeds. Technically this is not the case. RAM stores your previously opened applications and every time you clear it your phone has to open the app again from the beginning. Speaking simply, suppose you wear shoes everyday. If you open the lace every time you remove the shoes it is going to take much more time to wear it back the next time. But if you tie your laces loose and directly slip-in your feet it is going to much less time. So when an app is open in the RAM, you open it much quickly when you reuse the app! Try doing this for 1 week and let me know!! But yes, it is going to be very hard to leave the habit of clearing the RAM.
3) All chargers are same- NO, the are not. Duplicate chargers charge your phone much slower and definitely harm your phone. An original charger costs more because it comes with quality. If the tires are weak, the vehicle will crash. So it better to spend little more and buy the original charger for your phone.
4) It is compulsory to have an SD card slot in your phone- New phones nowadays don't come with an external SD card support and company do this to help prevent slowing down of their phone. Moreover you can use cloud services and can easily survive with only 16GB of internal storage as you can store your old files on cloud and free up your device storage.
5) More megapixel camera shoots better- ''Quality always does not come with Quantity''. The number of mega-pixel does not define the quality of your photo. The camera sensor plays a much more bigger role and popular phones nowadays always cheap out on the sensors. iphones have much lesser mega-pixels than android phones but due to their premium sensor quality they click a much detailed photo. How many times in your regular life are you going to actually use 10x zoom! These are marketing strategies of mobile companies to increase their sales and you must be aware of them.
Extra
Clearing Ram definitely increases your phone's
ability to launch new apps must faster as it might be occupied by
previously running apps. So this is not a myth. You can try yourself on
your smart phone...
Today most of the smart phones have above 2GB
of RAM. The RAM clearing trick works for older phones with 1GB RAM or
less. Today's modern smartphones have ability to optimize your RAM and
they automatically shut down apps which you have not used for a large
amount of time. & Yes I have tried this on my smartphone with 3GB of
RAM. But yes older smartphones do benefit from clearing RAM. Regards:)