**My Phone Experience: A Tour of My Android Device**

I'm John Rer from TechnoBuffalo, and I'll take you on a tour of my Android device. As an editor, I've got to stay up-to-date with the latest technology trends, and my phone is no exception.

**Editorial Disagreement**

If you're new to this channel, be sure to check out the New York Times app. They offer 10 free articles, and then there are other subscription options available. Don't worry if you disagree with me – that's what editorial discussions are all about! I use Drop Cam to stay connected with my family and friends. It's a handy tool that allows me to check in on my son and see what he's up to. Other apps I swear by include ESPN, DoorDash, and YouTube.

**Favorite Apps**

I'm a big fan of the ESPN app, which gives me alerts whenever my teams are playing. DoorDash is another favorite – it delivers food right to my doorstep, which is super convenient. I've also got a few quick dials set up for my wife and home. The YouTube app is always handy, too, with its real-time updates on my videos.

**Visual Voicemail**

One feature that's been a game-changer for me is Visual Voicemail. Android still doesn't have a great built-in client, so I've got the double-tap-to-launch camera hack down pat. It's saved me from having to dig through my pocket every time I get a call.

**Social Media and Productivity**

I use a widget that lets me switch between ring and vibrate notifications easily – it's been a lifesaver. Some sites, like Vit Stats X, help me track our subscription growth and monitor storage space. Dropbox is another cloud storage solution that I'm using more and more often, mostly because they offer so much storage space.

**Backup Solutions**

Sugar SN is another backup solution that I use for all my desktop files. It's reliable and easy to use. QuickPick is another tool that helps me pull in all of my oneDrive and Dropbox pictures with ease. For managing my stock portfolio, I rely on Amazon Music – it's a solid app that always delivers.

**Built-in Verizon Features**

I'm using some built-in Verizon features, like One Password, which has been a revelation for me. It's saved me from forgetting passwords time and again. Facebook's Hello Dialer is another tool I've tried – it's surprisingly decent.

**Samsung Apps and Google Play**

The Samsung apps that come with my device are as you'd expect: messaging, camera, etc. The New York Times app is also a favorite of mine – it offers real-time updates on news articles. Of course, there's the usual Google Play fare, like Gmail, Google Maps, and more.

**Productivity Hacks**

One hack that I swear by is Pushbullet – it's basically continuity for Android. With pushbullet, I can text from my browser, access notifications, and even get alerts on my desktop. VLC is another app that helps me play all sorts of video files with ease.

**United Airlines and Real Estate Market**

As a United Airlines frequent flyer, I've got the airline app installed on my device. It's super convenient to track flights and earn miles. Redfin is another app that keeps me informed about what's happening in the real estate market – it's always useful to stay up-to-date.

**Nova Launcher**

My phone runs on Nova Launcher, which has a clean and minimalistic design. I've tried to keep my home screen as simple as possible, using widgets like the weather forecast and calendar. But I'd love to hear from you – what launcher do you use? What widgets are you currently using?

**Discussion Time**

We'd love to hear from you! What's your favorite app or widget on your Android device? Do you prefer Google Now or some other launcher? Let us know in the comments below, and we'll try to help each other get the most out of our Android phone experiences.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on everyone John rer from TechnoBuffalo here every few months I like to show you guys what's on my device whether it's iOS or Android so I've been using the Galaxy S6 Edge for quite a while so thought I'd show you what's on my phone what apps I'm using what customizations I've made what tweaks I've done you guys can share what you've done you've got on your phone and it's actually really helped me previous videos to see what you guys do so that's my son Nate he's my wallpaper hi buddy um so here is my home screen it's pretty simple sometimes I'll get rid of these four apps on the side and I'll put some TR graic stats on there sometimes I'll put app shortcuts uh it really depends so right now I've got my set up and essentially three major home screens this is my home screen that I use all the time and the one that comes back when I hit the home button when I see most of anything uh on the left I've got Google Now I do not have the Google Now launcher on here on the Galaxy S6 and 6 Edge May the icon's a little too big for me and I also couldn't have my full row of five so I have Nova Launcher on here I tried to make as look as stock Android lollipop as I possibly could um I do miss swiping left to get to Google now but just holding down the home button uh will launch it for me which has gotten to be pretty easy and almost now second nature as opposed to just doing a very simple swipe uh on this side sometimes I'll have live traffic STS uh here as well that's why that's a little bit blank um I like to keep things relatively simple I don't want to be just overwhelmed by icons and widgets so let me show you what I've got I am a news hound I always like to know what's going on and what's going on sort of at the minute so front and center uh on my phone is always news I've got the New York Times widget here you can refresh it whenever you want and you can jump right into the stories including the Orioles playing in an empty Stadium which is super bizarre but the Oakland A have been doing it for years nobody ever said anything I'm an angels fan so you'll have to deal with it if you're an a fan so this is the New York Times app really where I go to get all of my news um you go ahead and jump right in there you can see it's broken out by category the magazine uh the business day or Sports uh the sports are primarily New York based so if you are a New York fan you can jump in and see those Sports you also have Global Sports stories as well one of the things I really like about the New York Times and I've always loved ever since I was in school are the editorials if you ever read a New York Times editorial uh you are really missing out I love to yell at them mostly and I yell to myself why would you say that author I disagree with you and I guess that's a point uh of an editorial so if you're a new sound be sure to check out the New York Times app they'll give you 10 articles for free and then there other subscription options so check it out uh drop cam is what I use all the time uh we've got a few in the office I got a few at home lets me check in uh on my son to see what he's doing or sleeping and or just generally causing trouble other stuff you probably expect ESPN app I get alerts whenever my teams are done door Dash really like that at least it's in Southern California delivers food to your house which really handy uh I've got some quick dials to my wife and and home uh some of the YouTube apps that I use a lot studio um and YouTube never used studio app it gives you sort of real time updates what's happening with your videos so you don't get you don't just see you know you're at 300 views or 303 you can actually see what that real number is um it's way helpful Emil I use for visual voicemail Android still doesn't have a good built-in Visual Voicemail client so I've got that there camera I have turned off a double tap to launch a camera here cuz I was doing it all the time by exit in my pocket and just my Social Media stuff continuing our tour a widget that lets me change it from ring to vibrate it's a lot easier for me uh some site things I use vit stats X tells me our subscription growth and what we've been doing that day and chbe is sort of real-time monitoring storage what I use for all my cloud storage Drive Dropbox one dve I've been using a lot actually I'm using it way more than Dropbox mostly because they give you a ton more storage and it works on almost every platform and and sugar SN is another backup solution that I use for all my desktop files uh quick pick is one that I use for gallery because lets me pull in all of my uh one drive and Dropbox pictures which uh the default app has a little bit of trouble doing so if you want something that can pull in all of your cloud storage uh try Quick Pick mobile hotspot that's pretty self-explanatory all the messaging services that I use and for managing my stock portfolio also see what I've got here Amazon music Amazon App Store I don't know why I download that I haven't really used it I just figured it might be a day when I need it some of the built-in Verizon stuff I am using this on Verizon one password is probably the best password storage app out there you should buy that for if you use a Mac use it uh if you have it just for your phone use it I forget passwords all the time and that has been one of the best things that I have ever bought I tried the hello dialer it's Facebook's own dialer I set it off I just want to see what it looked like so I know give it a shot if you want I prefer the messages app for texting as opposed to Hangouts I don't really like hangouts or use it all that much um other than that nothing else that exciting here the rest of the riding stuff that comes with it the Samsung apps of course the New York Times app that I talked about earlier all the Google play stuff that you would expect the S Health stuff here push bullet is absolutely awesome it's almost like continuity uh for Android you can go ahead and text from your browser from your desktop uh get alerts notifications it just makes things way easier we actually did a full video mark it on push buets so you should check that out VLC make sure I can play all my video files I'm a threes fanatic and uh red fin just to check out what's going on in the real estate market I'm United Airlines flyer so I've got that on there and the rest of kind of the Verizon stuff the other things that I talked about and again this is what my Nova Launcher looks like you can just see I tried to make it look as stock Android as possible nothing nothing fancy I'm a simple man with simple phone needs but I would love to hear what you guys use on your phone what widgets do you have um I learned a lot actually by seeing what you guys put in the comments so please leave it down below what you guys use what launcher you use do you care that you can have your row of five and you prefer the Google Now launcher and why you know let's have a discussion see if we can help each other uh get the best out of our Android phone experiences anyway thank you guys for watching hope you enjoyed until next time I'm John rer from Tech no Buffalo hit the big subscribe button hit the the latest TechnoBuffalo videos as they happen see you guys next video bye-byewhat's going on everyone John rer from TechnoBuffalo here every few months I like to show you guys what's on my device whether it's iOS or Android so I've been using the Galaxy S6 Edge for quite a while so thought I'd show you what's on my phone what apps I'm using what customizations I've made what tweaks I've done you guys can share what you've done you've got on your phone and it's actually really helped me previous videos to see what you guys do so that's my son Nate he's my wallpaper hi buddy um so here is my home screen it's pretty simple sometimes I'll get rid of these four apps on the side and I'll put some TR graic stats on there sometimes I'll put app shortcuts uh it really depends so right now I've got my set up and essentially three major home screens this is my home screen that I use all the time and the one that comes back when I hit the home button when I see most of anything uh on the left I've got Google Now I do not have the Google Now launcher on here on the Galaxy S6 and 6 Edge May the icon's a little too big for me and I also couldn't have my full row of five so I have Nova Launcher on here I tried to make as look as stock Android lollipop as I possibly could um I do miss swiping left to get to Google now but just holding down the home button uh will launch it for me which has gotten to be pretty easy and almost now second nature as opposed to just doing a very simple swipe uh on this side sometimes I'll have live traffic STS uh here as well that's why that's a little bit blank um I like to keep things relatively simple I don't want to be just overwhelmed by icons and widgets so let me show you what I've got I am a news hound I always like to know what's going on and what's going on sort of at the minute so front and center uh on my phone is always news I've got the New York Times widget here you can refresh it whenever you want and you can jump right into the stories including the Orioles playing in an empty Stadium which is super bizarre but the Oakland A have been doing it for years nobody ever said anything I'm an angels fan so you'll have to deal with it if you're an a fan so this is the New York Times app really where I go to get all of my news um you go ahead and jump right in there you can see it's broken out by category the magazine uh the business day or Sports uh the sports are primarily New York based so if you are a New York fan you can jump in and see those Sports you also have Global Sports stories as well one of the things I really like about the New York Times and I've always loved ever since I was in school are the editorials if you ever read a New York Times editorial uh you are really missing out I love to yell at them mostly and I yell to myself why would you say that author I disagree with you and I guess that's a point uh of an editorial so if you're a new sound be sure to check out the New York Times app they'll give you 10 articles for free and then there other subscription options so check it out uh drop cam is what I use all the time uh we've got a few in the office I got a few at home lets me check in uh on my son to see what he's doing or sleeping and or just generally causing trouble other stuff you probably expect ESPN app I get alerts whenever my teams are done door Dash really like that at least it's in Southern California delivers food to your house which really handy uh I've got some quick dials to my wife and and home uh some of the YouTube apps that I use a lot studio um and YouTube never used studio app it gives you sort of real time updates what's happening with your videos so you don't get you don't just see you know you're at 300 views or 303 you can actually see what that real number is um it's way helpful Emil I use for visual voicemail Android still doesn't have a good built-in Visual Voicemail client so I've got that there camera I have turned off a double tap to launch a camera here cuz I was doing it all the time by exit in my pocket and just my Social Media stuff continuing our tour a widget that lets me change it from ring to vibrate it's a lot easier for me uh some site things I use vit stats X tells me our subscription growth and what we've been doing that day and chbe is sort of real-time monitoring storage what I use for all my cloud storage Drive Dropbox one dve I've been using a lot actually I'm using it way more than Dropbox mostly because they give you a ton more storage and it works on almost every platform and and sugar SN is another backup solution that I use for all my desktop files uh quick pick is one that I use for gallery because lets me pull in all of my uh one drive and Dropbox pictures which uh the default app has a little bit of trouble doing so if you want something that can pull in all of your cloud storage uh try Quick Pick mobile hotspot that's pretty self-explanatory all the messaging services that I use and for managing my stock portfolio also see what I've got here Amazon music Amazon App Store I don't know why I download that I haven't really used it I just figured it might be a day when I need it some of the built-in Verizon stuff I am using this on Verizon one password is probably the best password storage app out there you should buy that for if you use a Mac use it uh if you have it just for your phone use it I forget passwords all the time and that has been one of the best things that I have ever bought I tried the hello dialer it's Facebook's own dialer I set it off I just want to see what it looked like so I know give it a shot if you want I prefer the messages app for texting as opposed to Hangouts I don't really like hangouts or use it all that much um other than that nothing else that exciting here the rest of the riding stuff that comes with it the Samsung apps of course the New York Times app that I talked about earlier all the Google play stuff that you would expect the S Health stuff here push bullet is absolutely awesome it's almost like continuity uh for Android you can go ahead and text from your browser from your desktop uh get alerts notifications it just makes things way easier we actually did a full video mark it on push buets so you should check that out VLC make sure I can play all my video files I'm a threes fanatic and uh red fin just to check out what's going on in the real estate market I'm United Airlines flyer so I've got that on there and the rest of kind of the Verizon stuff the other things that I talked about and again this is what my Nova Launcher looks like you can just see I tried to make it look as stock Android as possible nothing nothing fancy I'm a simple man with simple phone needs but I would love to hear what you guys use on your phone what widgets do you have um I learned a lot actually by seeing what you guys put in the comments so please leave it down below what you guys use what launcher you use do you care that you can have your row of five and you prefer the Google Now launcher and why you know let's have a discussion see if we can help each other uh get the best out of our Android phone experiences anyway thank you guys for watching hope you enjoyed until next time I'm John rer from Tech no Buffalo hit the big subscribe button hit the the latest TechnoBuffalo videos as they happen see you guys next video bye-bye\n"