Every person today has their own smartphones. They used it for communication, entertainment, photography hobby, gaming sports, ride hailing job and other online businesses like Lazada and Shopee. We need our phone everyday and I think we need also to think of how we can take good care of it technically to avoid wear out of its electrical component etc. Let’s start!

  1. Use power banks the right way.
Energizer UE100032 Charging a smartphone.

If you are travelling for long hours and no access to charging port, I am sure you are using powerbanks. Power banks are awesome invention for smartphones because its main goal is to give you power when your phone runs out however, if you used it the wrong way if will affect the life span of your battery. To ensure you use powerbanks right just imagine you are charging your phone in the wall outlet. Make sure it is fully charge before you remove it to your powerbanks. In this way, the health of your battery is protected. For further explanation read the article below.

2. Use CE Certified Chargers only.

CE Marking to ensure safety certification compliance.

This is for your safety and for your family. CE marking is a certification mark that indicates conformity with health, safety, and environmental protection standards. This certification ensure that your charger will not explode or cause electric shock once its internal components fail. Safety first, check CE marking.

3. Turn-off cellphone while charging.

If you are not expecting important calls it is a best practice to turn off cellphone while charging or at least stop using applications while charging. Have you read news about cellphone explosions? It is possible to happen especially for sub standards products. To ensure it will not happen to you and to your children make it a habit to just charge it.

4. Automatically backup photos, turn-off GeoTagging

Turn-off Geotagging for your safety.

Sign-in to your google accounts and set automatically backup photos. This is to ensure all your happy memories will not be lost even you lost your phone. Just make sure you use two-factor authentication in your Gmail account to make sure no one can access it except you.

You have to turn-off GeoTagging also because it embeds your location once you take picture. Some criminals use it to tract their victim as well as police to track their suspects whereabouts. For your safety and your love ones you must turn it off. You will never know what can happen.

5. Always update your phone software.

New malicious software and viruses are born everyday and your software provider is making every effort to safeguard their products to that threat. If an update prompt you listen to them and update your software right away. You do not know if your bank and credit card details are in threat.