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Listening to WhatsApp voice notes without earphones

There are times when you forget to carry your earphones or headsets. For example you are in a crowded public place, or a minibus, while you are on your trip, you figured to pass time, you play around with WhatsApp. Along the way a colleague sends you a voice note, a VN. But since on this particular day, unfortunately you forgot to carry with you earphones or headsets, which makes it harder to listen to the VN due to the public hearing in on your conversation. Unknown to most of the WhatsApp users out there is a tiny functionality that let's you have some privacy to your voice note conversation around such public environments. Did you know you can play voice notes and immediately place your phone to your ear and WhatsApp responds by playing the VN through the earpiece instead of the loudspeaker? Too late, now its a known fact, you can be anywhere without earphones but still listen to VNs privately through this functionality. Just tap play and quickly as possible mount the phone next...

Transferring everything to a new phone on Android

This other day a friend bought a second hand device. The previous owner had just bought a brand new android phone and their entire, files (contacts, SMS, pictures, music, apps, etc) were still on this old android device being sold. It can be tiring and annoying to transfer files one by one and in most cases this is how we tend to lose important files. But here is how you can avoid any data loss. There's a simpler way to transfer your data from your old android phone to a new android phone. At no cost. Its very easy too. An app called "CloneIt". This app is similar to "ShareIt" in terms of how it looks and the mechanism of connecting and transferring. If you are familiar with ShareIt and you know how to use that app, then CloneIt will be easy for you. CloneIt, copies everything in your old phone, from contacts, SMS, music, pic, I mean everything, to your new phone and the transfer is quick at a tap of a button. You can easily use CloneIt too if you are selling yo...