Discarded smartphone: 5 things you can still do with your old cell phone

If a new smartphone model comes onto the market, the old cell phone is quickly discarded. A sale is often associated with a high price loss, especially if the display is broken, for example. It's too bad for the garbage. We have 5 ideas on what you can do with the retired mobile phone.

Use discarded smartphone: from mobile to landline

• If you have treated yourself to a new cell phone, simply convert your old one into a landline phone.
• It works very easily, as long as the manufacturer of your router offers a corresponding app that can be used to call and receive calls. As a rule, these apps are free.
• We explain in detail how you use your iPhone as a landline phone in a separate practical tip.

Cool remote control instead of old cell phone

• You can save the batteries for the remote control if you use your old mobile phone as such.
• This works when your smart TV is connected to the home network. As long as the Bluetooth and WLAN functions on the old smartphone are intact, you only need the corresponding app.
• Use an app that can be used universally for multiple devices. Otherwise you have to consider the manufacturer and the type of device when choosing

Tip 3: continue to use the hotspot function

• If your data contract continues, leave the SIM card inserted and use the cell phone as a mobile hotspot.
• In this way, you can connect other devices to the Internet on the go. If the battery is weak, treat yourself to a power bank.
• This is definitely cheaper than buying a mobile hotspot.

Disposed cell phones become chic baby monitors

• Instead of disposing of the old cell phone, you can also use it to monitor your offspring. To do this, simply download one of the various baby monitor apps to your smartphone.
• If you connect the cell phone to the power permanently, you even have video surveillance thanks to the integrated camera.
• Tip: Some apps also take over the bedtime song for you.

Convert discarded smartphone into an alarm system

• Such a worn-out cell phone not only watches over your baby's sleep.
• If you use the function of an alarm system app to register noises and trigger a notification, you have an inexpensive system for your apartment or house - provided the mobile phone is continuously supplied with power.
• In the event of an alarm, you will be informed by phone, SMS or email.

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