Top Ten Smartphone Myths That You Must Know.

Smartphones has become a crousial part of our life today. It is like your 24×7 assistant. It seems that when we buy a smartphone then we got connected to the whole world. Weather it is computing related works, entartinaing yourself, reading books, news, magazine, gaming, etc, we come to our assistant, the smartphones. But today, in 21 century we believe in some superstitious and myths that has no meaning in our life, and the smartphones also is not untouched to these myths. In this part, I have tried to busts some common myths, which are not more than a gimmick, related to the smartphones.

So Let's Explore..................................................

1.Turning off your phone will not consume your battery:

Peoples generally thought that if you turn off your smartphone then your battery will not discharge. However, this is not true, because in today's smartphones, if you turn off your smartphone then your processor will run in the background.

You must have noticed sometime that when you switch on your smartphone after turning it off then cellar related notifications that you have missed is shown by your smartphone after booting. This happens because a phone generally has two O.S.- one operating system manages your celluar related works while another one manages your software, multimedia  and processing related works.

So when your smartphone is switched off then the operating system that has programmed to manage your celluar systems, runs in your smartphone even after it is switched off.

2.Fourty one megapixels wow!:

"More is better", however that's not true in the case of your smartphone's camera quality. It means to say that the quality of your camera does not depends on its megapixels. It is a common question asked by the peoples that, How much megapixels does this phone's camera have? Well their main aim is that if they got a smartphone with higher megapixel camera then it will be decent for pictures. But you must have saw that most of the smartphones have a decent camera ranging from 5MP-15MP.

But the thing is that the photos you take from your smartphone's does not depends mostly on megapixels. You have saw in flagships and midrange smartphones have a same megapixels of camera, but the picture taken from flagships have more vibrant and natural looking photos.

This is because there are various factors that add up the quality in your photos and rpodece a great looking image. And these factors are sensors - like OIS (Optical Image Stabilisatio), face detection, atuofocus, ISO, shutter speed, camera resolution, camera lens and aperture size. So if you want to buy a smartphone mainly for camera the must consider these factor, not blindly trust on megapixels. A higher megapixel camera is good for printing out bigger pictures without much distortion.

3 . Higher battery capacity Longer battery life:

Again we encounter, "More is better", well this seems to a bit confusing. Wait a second and think again. You must have fimilar with the Apple's smartphones, they give a very low battery capacity in their smartphones but still their smartphones manages to give out a decent or equal amount if battery life as compared to other devices like smasung, LG, Sony etc.



A smartphone with battery capacity of 2500mAh cam perform than a smartphone having a battery capacity of 3500mAh. Still confused? It is so because the factors related to battery life mostly depends upon the performance optimization and usage methods of your smartphones.

If your device is optimized well in performance then it can give out a better results than higher capacity batteries. The battery life mostly depends on your usage methods and performance optimization as if your smartphone's processor usage low power to perform various tasks then your battery life could be better.

So if you want to buy a smartphone that serve you for a longer time then, answer is, see the screen on time, if it is good maens higher than 4-5 hours then this may be the smartphone of your choice.

4.Higher Specification means good smartphone to buy:

Again we face this thing, this will never stops. So as in the case of battery capacity the rule applies here as well. "More is better ", but if and only if, it is optimized well. So a smartphone with higher specs are good, but a smartphpne with higher specification but lower optimization is not good as compared to the device with lower specification but higher optimization.



During the purchase of a smartphone we should not only consider the specifications but performance and benchmark results also. The benchmark results are however not exactly tell you about the performance of your smartphone in real life senario but they may provide you a brief idea about its performance. You can easily find these results on websites and youtube as well.

So remember the optimization is the key point for a good smartphone.

5.Killing the apps in background makes the phone faster:

It becomes a common habbit of the peoples, that they started to close the apps after using it for a while, and then again they starts to using them after sometime. If you are also doing like this then please stop it now. We thought that killing the apps running in the background will speed up your phone but in reality, it does reverse of what you thought. If you are confusing then let's take an example - consider if you open video player app and you close it every time after watching to video.

So when you open the app again then the phone has to reload the app from the memory every time,which in terms consumes much memory and time as well as power of your smartphone. And causes your phone to work slowly.

So instead of closing the app manually let it be run in the background itself. This makes the phone easier to reopen the app quickly. The smartphones have memory management algorithm that is commonly known as Low Memory Killer or LMK. Thus Low Memory Killer is smart enough that it allows to close those apps that are not used by you frequently, whenever there is low memory in your phone. So stop please closing the background apps now.

6.The myths about battery saver apps:

Many peoples started to download the battery saver app whenever they saw them in play store, app store or on Internet. But does they really work? If you are trying to find the answer of this question, then please stop. Actually, in reality most of these battery saver apps are a battery hogger apps.

Acutally what they do is, Most of these battery saver apps continuously scan the conditions of your device e.g., battery level, memory (Ram)level and started to close the apps frequently that are running in the background and this requines a lot of memory to run this whole process. Thus they utilises more power and have an adverse effect in the battery of your smartphone. So instead of saving the battery they started to eating a lot of power from your smartphone by running continuously and this makes your smartphone slow as well by consuming more memory.

The smartphone have its own battery management system. Whenever there is low battery level in your smartphone,  the battery management system started to save the battery automatically by reducing the power  consumption of your device. They may reduce the speed of processor as well as brightness level whenever there is low power left in your device.

If you have a smartphone then you must have fimilar with power saving mode or ultra power saving modes in Samsung devices. So use them instead of these useless battery saver apps.

7.Charging your phone over night hurt your battery:

When you think about charging your phone overnight and tells your friend that you gonna do it, then after a while he/she said that, "you are a fool, you don't know that this may cause your phone to blast off like an atom bomb". Whenever you hear these golden word from your friend's mouth you thought that he is telling truth and you cancel your plan.

Actually it is a common myth among all people and all of these useless things have arrived from past incidents. But in reality the modern smartphones have a protection barrier that prevent the phone from overcharging as well as short circuit. Whenever the charging is completed these safety circuits cut off the part supply from the wall charger and this prevent them from overcharging.

So it is safe to charge your phone overnight and see your sweet dreams,  unless you have a faulty charger.

8.Don't Charge your phone from 3rd party chargers:

This is another type of myth that people trust blindly and this is mainly created by the smartphone manufacturer itself. Actually the fact is that, there is no harm to charge your smartphone with this party charger unless it had same specification as the optimum one.

Specifications, what does that mean? It means that the 3rd party charger should outflow the same current and voltage as your original charger does.

But be careful, if you are using a low quality 3rd party charger then you are now in the hands of God, because those cheap chargers doesn't contain a good circuitry to flow the good amount of amp and this could leads to serious issues in your smartphone.

9.Don't use your smartphone while it is charging, Otherwise they will explode:

This myths has again become popular due to some unfortunate incidents that had occurred in the previous year. And it is true at some instant. Like when your charger's wire is damanged, or you use the 3rd party charger that is not right for your smartphone and in some rare cases your device's battery is damaged like in the case of note 7.

However, if you ignore these mistakes then you can be safe at home or anywhere in the world. Only just remember that don't be so addict of your smartphone, take a break from it and give rest to your smartphone also.

10.Be ware of your smartphone, they can kill you:

Excess of everything is bad. And it is true even in the case of your smartphone. Every device that is wireless e.g., phone, radio, router, Bluetooth speaker(wireless), etc, produce and emits radiation and this can be harmful at some extent. That's why they are allowed to be sold at the radiation level that makes no harm to humans.

"The process of measuring the radiation level in a device is known as SAR value".

The devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, etc, are allowed to be tested before they release in the market. So long term exposure to these devices is not allowed. If it so important to you then use accessories like headphones, earphones, etc, that helps you to keep your smartphone away from you most of the time. Also before going to bed keep your smartphone on the table or desk instead of pillow or beside your head to keep yourself safe from exposure of the radiation.



So these were some smartphone Myths that have busted. If you like this post then please share it to your circles to let them know about these myths.