What’s on my phone?
If you had asked me this about 6 or 7 years ago, I would have assumed you were referring
to dirt or scratches or something.
But now… it means something quite different.
The last time I did one of these videos was in January of last year, so it’s time to
do a quick update, given the pretty decent response to - and continuous requests for
repeats of - last year’s video.
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For starters, my current daily driver is a Samsung Galaxy Note 5.
And yes, it’s in an Otterbox Defender case again.
Not looking much different than my Galaxy S4 in last year’s video, but it’s a much,
much better phone.
I quite enjoy it, even if I use the note-taking function less than I’d like to admit.
(But I do still use it.)
I’m not running a custom ROM or anything like that - just the stock TouchWiz that comes
on it.
That may turn some people off, but I don’t have time to keep screwing around with customizing
ROMs and having a less-than-stable phone experience.
I want it to “just work.”
The layout of my home screen is actually exactly stock.
I find the Google search bar quite handy, the large clock and date is convenient at
a glance, and the weather update is quite handy, given that temperatures can vary by
30 degrees Fahrenheit in any given 12-hour period lately.
The bottom row of icons is probably exactly how the phone came - the default phone, messaging,
and camera apps, GMail for my main business and personal emails, and then the App drawer.
Up above, I have a probably random assortment of what I use most.
The “Google” assortment of apps is in the exact same place as when I first turned
on the phone - quite convenient, though I did switch out some apps and get rid of ones
I’d never use.
The other stock options here are the S Note app - for obvious reasons, the contacts app,
and the stock email app.
I use GMail for my main Google Account email, and then the stock email app to keep in touch
with my work email that I route through a separate Google account.
It’s nice to have both.
Then we have the usuals - Chrome, Facebook, Messenger, Twitter, Instagram, Skype.
I end up having to check on money stuff a lot, so Paypal and Virtual Wallet sit up here
for ease of access.
The “Almond” icon is the app to access my Securifi Almond Router.
This is the router I use for my apartment, and it’s something I’ve actually reviewed
- so click the YouTube card icon or the link in the description below to see more on that.
I don’t often use it to actually manage my router, but rather the z-wave connected
smart outlet that controls a light and power strip by my front door.
Very convenient to control that from my phone.
Lastly on this page is my combination of Google Keep and Google Calendar.
I’ve finally ditched my giant desk calendars that I used heavily throughout college and
now rely quite heavily on my Google Calendar to keep me organized for my personal and business
life - I keep quite a detailed video upload schedule, which you can actually check out
on my website by clicking the card icon or link in the description!
I post all videos across all of my channels to that calendar so they’re all in one place.
Google Keep serves as my ultimate note-taking, todo list, grocery list, video notes, work-bookmarks
app to keep me organized in my own special way.
Because I never adopted a proper system and somehow work best by keeping everything in
one giant continuous list.
Yeah.
Okay.
And before I get people leaving angry comments on how I didn’t address it - my wallpaper
is found by just searching “rainy day phone wallpaper” - that’s what I did to find
it.
If you’re a photographer or artist and want to potentially get your stuff as my wallpaper,
feel free to let me know, just know this cliche “pretentious abstract” stuff is what I’m
into.
Moving on.
Swiping left simply reveals a full-page calendar widget so I can see everything going on within
the upcoming days in my favorite form - a giant list.
It has a couple of view modes, but I leave it on this.
Annoyingly, I actually bought the Today Calendar widget for this purpose - as that’s what
I used on my Galaxy S4 - only to find out the normal Google Calendar Widget worked perfectly.
Thankfully, by uninstalling it before even opening the app I was automatically refunded
for my purchase - really cool stuff.
Swipe over to the right and you have the rest of the junk I use on a regular basis.
Games that I have guilty pleasures for like Neko Atsume, Jelly Splash, Candy Crush, and
Peggle Blast, the Play Store, more social media tools for my Vessel App - which I will
hopefully start using to make “threads” with them soon - and Periscope and Latergramme
for scheduling Instagram posts.
I have my Amazon Shopping app because I’m a shopaholic, Amazon Seller to look up prices
while I’m in the store and sometimes resell stuff when the deal is good.
I have Capital One because again - always checking on money, and then My TWC app because
I’m constantly having internet problems with one of the worst monopolizing ISPs in
the country and have to use the app to chat with support and demand they fix my connection.
Oh, and Dropbox for backing up my photos and videos and accessing my files and Google Analytics.
At the top on this page we also have an AdSense widget.
And before people assume they know something that they don’t - only my website and my
brand new, just launched social media marketing channel are on AdSense, not my main YouTube
channels, so no that’s not an accurate representation of how much money I make.
Just to be clear.
And that’s… about it, really.
My priority with my phone is it doing what I want when I want - which is way more than
can be said for my craptop laptop of a 3-year-old Chromebook that I wrote this video on, so
I will NOT be doing a “What’s on my Laptop?”
video until I can get a new laptop - so I keep a fairly stock experience.
I have a ton of other random junk apps and games installed, but these are all I really
use on a regular basis.
So comment down below - what’s on your phone?
Anything crazy or special that you use that I should know about?
Let me know.
Otherwise, thanks so much for watching this video, smash the like button if you liked
it, don’t forget to subscribe, and otherwise I’ll catch you in the next one.