{"id":21295,"date":"2025-12-21T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/a-tape-measure-a-metal-detector-and-a-spirit-level-25-surprisingly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-your-phone\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T12:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:37:15","slug":"a-tape-measure-a-metal-detector-and-a-spirit-level-25-surprisingly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/a-tape-measure-a-metal-detector-and-a-spirit-level-25-surprisingly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-your-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"A tape measure, a metal detector and a spirit level: 25 surprisingly useful things you can do with your phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <br \/><\/strong>While many use our phones predominantly to doomscroll, smartphones have a range of little-known functions that could make life better and easier \u2013 from heart monitoring to even developing camera film<\/p>\n<p>Our smartphones are magical things \u2013 far more than dopamine drip providers and a way to keep in touch with friends and family. Using the built-in features and easily available additional apps, there are plenty of clever things you can do with your smartphone.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/21\/a-tape-measure-a-metal-detector-and-a-spirit-level-25-surprisingly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-your-phone\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/98a35bdd81c0e2c17ce4be6e699c71bcc177a32b\/1415_0_8084_6467\/master\/8084.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=27f77b8aad927e48a0651cdfdc99ee4c\" title=\"A tape measure, a metal detector and a spirit level: 25 surprisingly useful things you can do with your phone\" \/>While many use our phones predominantly to doomscroll, smartphones have a range of little-known functions that could make life better and easier \u2013 from heart monitoring to even developing camera film<br \/>\nOur smartphones are magical things \u2013 far more than dopamine drip providers and a way to keep in touch with friends and family. Using the built-in features and easily available additional apps, there are plenty of clever things you can do with your smartphone. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many use our phones predominantly to doomscroll, smartphones have a range of little-known functions that could make life better and easier \u2013 from heart monitoring to even developing camera film Our smartphones are magical things \u2013 far more than dopamine drip providers and a way to keep in touch with friends and family. Using &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/a-tape-measure-a-metal-detector-and-a-spirit-level-25-surprisingly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-your-phone\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A tape measure, a metal detector and a spirit level: 25 surprisingly useful things you can do with your phone<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}