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App Smart Extra: Getting More Out of Your Phone

This week's App Smart was all about applications that offer hints and tips. These are the sorts of apps that reveal all the secret gestures and commands available on your smartphone. Using some of these tricks can definitely improve your smartphone experience and may even solve some problems.

Here are a few more that might interest you.

The Tips and Tricks Handbook for iPhone Lite app. The Tips and Tricks Handbook for iPhone Lite app.

The iPhone is blessed with lots of such apps. Tips and Tricks Handbook for iPhone Lite is definitely worth a try. It offers plenty of advice, usefully broken down into categories and full of images and straightforward text. The free app even aims to help manage battery life, suggesting things like disa bling Wi-Fi when it is not in use.

Android Updates, News & Apps is a similar free app for devices running the Android operating system. The app, which has been updated recently, detects the device you are using so it can customize content offerings. Although it offers hints and tips, it provides news and detailed information about your device as well as generic information on Android. As a result, helpful hints can get buried in the flow of data, but it is nonetheless a useful tool.

Because there are many different Android-based phones in use, and because manufacturers customize them, it is definitely worth searching in Google Play to learn what apps are available for your handset.

The Secrets for iPad Lite app. The Secrets for iPad Lite app .

And if you own an iPad, you may benefit from free apps like Secrets for iPad Lite. It contains a selection of hints and tips drawn from a larger list in the more robust version that costs $1.

In using these apps, you will probably discover many things about the gadget you thought you knew so well.