New task instead of trash cans: old smartphones also have their benefit. Don’t throw them away! We show you 5 useful things you can still do with your old mobile phone.

Music Player

They are too good to throw away but are still laying unused in the drawer: old smartphones. But what to do with them? Selling them or give them away is a solution. However, devices that do not meet today’s smartphone requirements can be useful in other ways, they provide helpful services even after years.

Even older smartphones can fulfill a task relatively easily: the playing of music. Provided that the battery and the jack plug are not damaged, so they can be used as an MP3 player. Just download an music app in the app store and enjoy listening to your favorite songs that can be stored in the internal memory. But it is better if the smartphone has an additional memory card slot because with the help of a microSD card you don’t need to worry about a full storage.

Portable Hotspot

Your laptop, iPad or tablet can go online only via Wi-Fi and you do not want to buy an expensive, portable hotspot? No problem! Just use your old smartphone as a hotspot by activating hotspot function on your device. An old smartphone can also serve as a replacement for a portable hotspot device. Thanks to the hotspot function, your smartphone can provide the internet to other devices. You just need a SIM card with enough data capacity and you are ready to surf online with your laptop or iPad or other devices. This solution is cheaper than buying a mobile hotspot.

Mobile Phone for Your Children

You can hardly refuse your child’s mobile phone request nowadays. Actually, a mobile phone also helps with the education: You can call your child at any time, and a son or daughter can contact you at any time. Instead of buying a new and expensive phone, you can give your child an old mobile phone to get used to an electronic device and to learn how to use it. With particular apps, you can also limit the usage of the phone, So that children cannot do prohibited or costly with the cell phone

Babyphone

An unused smartphone can be used as a babyphone to monitor your child. There are many apps with which you can connect your old mobile phone with the babyphone that gives a signal to another mobile phone, as soon as a certain noise level is exceeded in the monitored room. If you have two Apple devices, you can even monitor your baby via camera, or rather Facetime. But the mobile phone should be connected to a charger.

Digital Picture Frame

If the display of your old mobile phone is not damaged, the device can be used as a digital picture frame. Especially smartphones with a larger screen size are perfect to present your personal pictures. Alternatively, old tablets also would work. In full-screen mode, selected images can be displayed on the screen. Slideshows can also be created. If you want, you can download apps in the Play Store that will enhance the quality of the digital slide show and you can add music to your photos.

How to Reuse Your Old Mobile Phone

We have listed five ways how to reuse an old mobile phone. No useful tip found?  Then you can just sell or recycle the phone. But in most cases, you get only a few Dollars. Follow our page to read more about smartphones.