Your smartphone is full of surprises. There's an app if you want to use your phone as a magnifying glass or scanner. Tap or click here for hidden apps on your smartphone and how to find them.

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

I'm looking for a combination of Android tablet and app that will unlock, open a scanner app, take a photo to scan, and then open the resulting URL in a browser in the shortest amount of time possible ...