Samsung now lets you transform your old phones into smart home devices
Most of us have a couple of old phones lying at the bottom of a cabinet we haven’t opened for quite some time. These relics now gather dust as they serve no purpose since we’ve moved on to newer devices.
In its efforts to reduce waste, Samsung has launched a new initiative that lets you breathe new life in your old Galaxy phones. The company is making it possible to transform them into smart home devices.
Give your old Galaxy phones a new lease on life
If you’ve been using the SmartThings app to make your home a bit “smarter”, you will now be able to test out some of the things that Samsung is experimenting with. The SmartThings Lab makes these experiments available to selected users so they will be able to test it out and give real-time feedback to […]
Samsung is constantly updating its SmartThings app. It recently introduced ‘SmartThings Find’, which can help you locate your Galaxy devices including smartphones, tablets, earbuds, and smartwatches. Now, the company is rolling out ‘SmartThings Labs’ as an added service within the current SmartThings app.
“In SmartThings’ ongoing mission to make technology advancements to enhance the user experience, SmartThings Labs offers advanced access to upcoming features for consumers to test ahead of release. With the ability to provide real-time feedback directly to engineers, SmartThings Labs empowers users to assist in SmartThings’ spur of innovation in IoT technology,” said Samsung in a press release.