PHONES
Listen to audio in mono mode
I’m hard of hearing in my left ear, so when listening to music or audiobooks on my Google Pixel phone I activate Android’s mono mode. It’s in the Hearing section, which is part of Accessibility. On some phones you have to tap ‘Audio adjustment’. Tap the ‘Mono audio’ slider (see screenshot left) to switch the feature on. This directs audio to both earbuds, which means you don’t lose any audio when wearing just one earbud – for me, that’s in my right ear.
Phil Bryan
APPS
Read your Kindle ebooks on an Android tablet
You often have excellent tips on getting free stuff, and you regularly recommend buying the Amazon Kindle. But if you have an Android tablet you can use the Kindle app10.5in screen (£169 from ). It may not be as fast as Samsung’s S8 and S9 tablets, but I like it – and it’s better than the slow Amazon Fire tablet I had before.
