2 Reasons why you should not use your mobile phones as flashlights

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2 Reasons why you should not use your mobile phones as flashlights

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The use of mobile phones as flashlights is rampant

That many of us are used to using our mobile phones as flashlights is no longer a piece of news. Most people who use their mobile phones often with them, end up using them as flashlights when the need arises, perhaps in an unplanned situation, where you need to find something in the dark or hidden away from visible light, according to our Information Education Blog Post of today, 25 December, 2022, reporting How-to-geek.

While they come with a fairly powerful built-in flashlight that is so convenient and easy to use. But you should not use your mobile phones as flashlights.

No doubt your smartphone produces sufficient illumination (about 40-50 lumens) from the little LED flash, enough to enable you to use it at that impromptu moment, even adjusting the flashlight brightness on your phone for more illumination if need be.

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You should not use your mobile phones as flashlights

While the improvised mobile phone flashlight serves you the purpose, you strongly advise that you should not use your phone as a flashlight for these 2 reasons. Here are two reasons why you should not use your mobile phones as flashlights

1. Your mobile phones are expensive

Your mobile phones are very expensive, more expensive than the dedicated torchlight or flashlight, yet millions of us use our smartphones like regular flashlights every day in situations where we would benefit from a dedicated flashlight and not a mobile phone with a flashlight function.

They have become even become more expensive more recently since the persistent rise in the prices of goods that has affected the prices of mobile phones and other electronic products.

2. Your mobile phones are fragile

Another reason you should not use your mobile phones as flashlights is that they are more fragile than dedicated flashlights. You can mistakenly drop it and break it or damage it beyond repair. You might end up spending fifty times the amount with which you bought the more durable dedicated flashlight. Besides, dedicated flashlights are more durable and are meant for that purpose and many of them can sustain impact pressure when they drop on hard surfaces. Dropping an impact-resistant metal-body flashlight is going to, at worse, just scuff the body of the flashlight, leaving it with just minor scratches at most.

Even when you can fix the phone, you will end up spending more than the cost of the dedicated flashlight as well your Saturday morning or afternoon with a mobile phone repairer or the service company.

Conclusion

Don’t form the habit of using your mobile phones as flashlights because they are expensive to replace and they are fragile and might get damaged when they drop.