Showing posts with label Nokia Icon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nokia Icon. Show all posts

Monday, April 13, 2015

How do you display your Phone Screen on your Smart TV?

This capability is cool as it enables you to project a larger image of your screen (i.e., whatever it is presently displaying) on to a larger screen.

The procedure in this post needs a Windows Phone and a Smart TV. In particular a Windows Phone 8.1 operating system on a Nokia Icon. Many other Nokia/Microsoft phones have the feature called 'Miracast' to project your phone display on to a Smart TV. You need no physical connection because it is over your Wi-Fi connection. The Smart TV used here is a Samsung Smart TV.

First you need to change the source of information coming to your TV. When you are watching TV, the TV channels come into your monitor. You need to change the source to Screen Mirroring on the Samsung Smart TV as shown:

ScreenMirroring1
It is the same with other Smart TVs as well. Click on Settings on your start page on your Windows Phone 8.1 to display the following. You may need to scroll down to see the item 'Project my Screen'.

ScreenMirroring2

Click on that and the following screen will be displayed.



To start with it may show that it is not collected, but if your Wi-Fi on the phone is working it will eventually find your TV as shown above.

When you tap on Samsung LED46 you get connected and the screens you display on your phone get displayed on your Smart TV.

However, Samsung Smart TV has a problem. The image you see gets displayed inverted on your Smart TV.

I have scratched out the last sentence from the original as I found that you can fix the orientation with Advanced Settings:
http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2015/04/httphodentekhelpblogspotcom201504is.html

Monday, February 23, 2015

Health and Fitness App really motivates people

Health is number one that people think about. People may not act rationally when it comes to taking care. Otherwise how can you justify doctors smoking but advising patients not to or doctors  abusing drugs.

The apps have jumped on this bandwagon. First appeared the fitness wrist bands from Nike, Fitbit and others. Soon smart phone vendors started creating Health and Fitness apps for Smartphones such as Samsung, Microsoft and soon Apple.

The Microsoft Nokia phones such as Nokia Icon and others have all the necessary sensors like accelerometers, GPS and in the case of Windows Phone8.1 special programs like SensorCore make it easy to measure or track physical movements like walking,jogging, etc without draining the battery.
Here  are some screen shots:





The Health and Fitness app for Windows Phone 8.1 can be downloaded from the Windows Store. Just right click to launch the app.

Here is a screen shot from tracking:

 GPS Tracking


More on this app here:
http://winsupersite.com/windows-phone/bing-health-fitness-app-updated-pedometer-functionality-nokia-lumia-630-and-635

The app can also be used with Microsoft's wrist band.

Apple will be coming with a watch that can be used to monitor Health and Fitness soon

http://mashable.com/2014/06/02/apple-health-healthkit-app/