Have you ever wondered why do you sometimes receive ads about things you didn’t type or said to your mobile assistant? For example, you talk to your friend about wanting to buy, say, a bicycle, and after an hour you see tons of bike ads on your smartphone. You talked in person, and you never searched for a bike on the Internet, yet there it is. Is your smartphone secretly listening to you? And if it is, how to deal with that?

Your smartphone has its own secret life. It doesn’t like when it’s too cold or too hot, may have disagreements with phones on another operating system, and doesn’t work on the subway. Let’s take a peek at why it does all these things and also find out why can’t phone batteries be removed any longer, why Androids may sometimes not receive texts from iPhones, why are smartphones so similar, and some other interesting facts about smartphones.

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