10 things you didn't know you could do with your smartphone

New Delhi: In today's digital age, smartphones are designed to perform everything – right from making calls to work as a mobile hotspot or to watch television. The new breed of smartphone, with their host of built-in features and available apps, allow you to do pretty much anything you can dream up. We've rounded up 10 handy and little-known ways to use your smartphone— matching paint color, starting your car from your kitchen, checking your heart rate and more. 1. Match Paint ColorsThe BEHR's ColorSmart mobile app allows you to match the perfect paint color. It allows you to photo-match to any Behr color, browse through the company's color catalog, and save colors and room images for later reference. The app is available for iOS and Android devices.2. Instant webcamUsing the app called Mobiola, you can turn your smartphone into a webcam to use in continuation with messaging apps like Skype, Google+ etc. 3. Start your carIf you have a car and wanted remote system to start it then you can use Viper Smart Start app. The app gives any smartphone the ability to perform many remote functions on a car by using the alarm system's app, but only iPhone 4S and 5 users can get their car running simply by saying, "Siri, start my car." In addition, you can lock and unlock a car's doors. The SmartStart 3.0 app also lets you know if you left a door open, send a reminder to start your car if it's cold outside and even use GPS to find your car from just about anywhere.4. Measure stuff using your camera lensThere are several apps that can measure practically anything for you through your camera lens. Check out Smart Measure Pro for Android and Dot Measure Pro for iOS.5. Create Blueprints (or Design Your Dream Room)For a high-level room design your home, you can use apps like uDecore that lets you view a real room in your home through your device's camera. Using augmented reality, you can visualize different pieces of furniture.6. Monitor your heart rateThere are several apps to measure your heart rate. It is done after placing your finger on your smartphone screen for a few seconds. 7. Use your phone as a remote controlYou can have a universal remote like the RedEye Mini on your iPad/iPhone/iPod touch to keep track of what you're trying to achieve on which device. 8. Use your smartphone as a document scannerIf you're using iOS and want something simple and inexpensive, MobiTech 3000's free JotNot Scanner will get the job done. To use it you can either snap a photo of your document or import it from your photo library, at which point it will attempt to detect the edges of your document.9. Change the color of your lightbulbsWith Phillips Hue app and "smart" light bulbs, you can adjust the lighting via Wi-Fi on your iPhone or iPad, and you can also turn your lights on remotely.10. Turn your phone like an advance cameraAlthough the camera on your phone is good for every day pictures, you can get SLR- quality photo with the purchase of an add-on.

10 things you didn't know you could do with your smartphone

New Delhi: In today's digital age, smartphones are designed to perform everything – right from making calls to work as a mobile hotspot or to watch television. The new breed of smartphone, with their host

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