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Top 10 uses of OTG cable – USB OTG cable or USB On-the-go is one of the best things happened to a smartphone. Using this simple and cheap gadget, you can do a lot of things to make your smartphone come to life. In case you are wondering, here are top 10+ uses of OTG cable that you should know.

 Here are some of those simple yet effective uses of OTG cable that you should know.

1. Connect Game Controller to Smartphone or Tablet

Smartphone games are pretty fun to play. As good as they are, the best way to play most of the games is to use a good game controller. Using the game controller, you can control even the minute of the movements and get most out of the games. The good thing is most modern smartphones support external gamepads out of the box. Using an OTG cable, you can simply and easily connect any supported external game controller.

2. LAN Cable




Connect Broadband to Phone with OTG Cable
Yes, guys, You heard it right.We can connect our Broadband connection or output from your Modem directly to our phone.Suppose if you don’t have a Wifi Modem with you but only a modem you can make use of this trick.

3. Connect A Hard Disk

When our phone memory is full or almost complete, you can backup files to a portable External Hard Disk using an OTG Cable. Just connect the Hard Disk USB Cable to the OTG Cable and start transferring files to your Hard Disk and vice versa.

4. Charge Another Phone

Charge A Phone With Another Phone
You can Actually Charge Another smartphone with an OTG Cable. for this all you want to to is, just connect the USB cable to a phone which you want to charge and connect it to the OTG Cable.Now the phone will be charging.This comes handy when your friend’s phone doesn’t have enough charge.

5. Connect To A Camera

Yes, You can connect your smartphone to your Camera and control it.It will be very useful to every photographer who deals with tons of image.It will help you to sort out important photos, Snap images and do a lot more with your Camera from your smartphone.

6. Connect To Mic/Sound Card

Connect Mic to phone with OTG Cable
Usually, the Mics that we have in our Smartphone will be a low-quality one and it cannot record high-quality audios. In this situation we can use an external Mic or Soundcard using an OTG cable can start using it.It helps us to record Audios with more quality and Listen to music with extra bass.

7. Keyboard

Connect Keyboard to smartphone with OTG Cable
You can actually connect a USB Wired Keyboard to your Smartphone and start typing with it.This comes really handy when you want to type Long Documents, Emails and Articles on you Mobile, It will be very difficult to type long documents using the on-screen screen keyboard of the mobile device and is again more tie consuming process.So, in this scenario, it will be better to use a keyboard to type really faster without any mistake.

8. USB Fan

Connect USB Fan to Phone with OTG Cable
Some of you may have already heard about a device called USB Fan.Usually, we use this USB Fan in our Laptop when we have an overheating issue.In the same way, you can also connect the same USB Fan to your Smartphone and start using it.Just plug the OTG Cable to your mobile and plug USB Fan to the OTG Cable.
If you want to buy a good quality USB Fan, then you can buy one produced Xiaomi, which is really cool.

9. USB Mouse

We can connect a regular USB mouse on our smartphone.Yes, you heard it right, If you have a USB Mouse with you then you connect it to your phone and start using it right away.After you connect the mouse to OTG Cable, a small Mouse Pointer will appear on your smartphone screen.And you can use as the way you want. I tried it on my device and it was simply awesome.

10. Card Reader

As you use Pendrive with OTG Cable, in the same way, you can also use regular Memory Card Reader as well.If you want to use two memory cards simultaneously on your Device then you can use a Card Reader. Just insert the memory card into the card reader and plug it into the OTG Cable, that’s it.You can Cut, Copy, Paste or Transfer files from the Memory Card.

11. USB Light

As mentioned earlier that you can use USB Fan, in the same way, you can also use USB Lights too. If your flashlight isn’t working or you need more light than your phone’s flashlight or even if your phone doesn’t have a flashlight you can use a regular USB Light which is available for less than $4.
Final Words
These are the most unique and extraordinary OTG Cable Uses that anyone can do with a single piece of OTG Cable. OTG Cables costs you less than 3 Dollars and is worth for the money we spent. We can surprise our friends by showing this OTG Cable Uses and I’m pretty sure that they haven’t heard it before.
Hope you guys enjoyed our list of Top 10 Extra Ordinary OTG Cable Uses and it’s functionalities. Now take your OTG Cable and experiment those and get most out of your device.
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