How to Play Pokemon Go and Get It Transferred from Phone to Phone?

The Pokemon game is already proving insanely popular. Within 24 hours of its launch, it’s reported that it has crashed company servers and caused shares in Nintendo to surge by 10 per cent.

Players can scan their surroundings while out and about and if they’re lucky, a wild Pokemon might pop up on their screen for them to grab. They can then throw a ‘Poke Ball’ at it in an attempt to capture the Pokemon and add it to their collection.

You may have stumbled onto this page knowing nothing about Pokemon. No problem, let’s discover something incredibly interesting on Pokemon together.

First of all, you have to name and customize your Avatar and choose the gender, skin color and other basic features. You’ll level up as a Pokemon Trainer as you progress with costumes added. Then Willow gives you a Poke ball and sends you off to catch your first Pokemon-- one of the original starter trio from the original Pokemon Red and Blue,  Charmander, Bulbasaur or Squirtle. If you walk away from these trio to make them disappear finally, the Pikachu will show up for you. By the way the Pokemon you encounter depends on where you are in the real world. If you’re around the places with water, you will meet more water-types.

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To evolve your Pokemon, you’ll need to collect Candies and Stardust which will be gained in the process. You can walk fast or take bus to speed up the velocity to make Poke ball hatch out. You need to consider health points(HP), when the HP drop to zero, use either a Revive token or a Potion to boost their health. Due to the high battery consumption of using camera and GPS, you’d better toggle on Battery Saver mode.

In a conclusion, Pokemon is so popular, kind of sweeping the world. Pokemon is now officially out in more than 30 countries, such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA and UK. A great numbers of people are crazy about playing it, but here comes a question: what if you are changing your phone to another smartphone? If you got another phone, could you transfer all of the Pokemon data to from the old phone? Of course you can. By using Gihosoft Phone Transfer software, you are allowed to transfer pokemon app to the other mobile device. 

Why is Snapchat So Popular (4 Reasons)?

2015 is a milestone year for Snapchat, it is reported that the average daily numbers of video visits reach 6 billion per day in the last month of 2015 which has increased by 4 billion compared to that of May. The biggest social media in the world by far is no doubt to be Facebook which scores 8 billion for such daily visits. Though more traffic leads to Facebook, the significantly increasing statistic of Snapchat cannot be ignored in some way, because people can access to Facebook through more ways like app, mobile website and desktop website while users  can only reach to Snapchat via the app itself.

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This article lists 4 reasons for why Snapchat is so popular and cannot be neglected even by the Big Facebook?

1. The number of users of Snapchat is in rapid growth

According to what CEO of Snapchat Evan Spiegel said in May 2015, the active users of Snapchat per day came close to 100 million. The users are not a big deal compared to the 600 million users of WeChat and 320 million users of Twiiter in the same period, but the advantages of Snapchat is obvious. Some researchers regard Snapchat as a social media which grows faster than others in 2014 like Instagram, Pinterest Facebook and Messenger.

2. High activity

Based on a statistic, 65% of 100 million Snapchat users prefer to share their photos while 126 in 947 million users only post a twit once a month. That’s to say, Snapchat has got a magic bean to appeal users to share their life somehow than other main social medias. In UK, 75% social media traffic of Vodafone flows to Snapchat.

3. 21^st century generation are crazy about Snapchat

In USA, 60% Social media users are among 13-24 age, and 26% are among 25-34 age. And what need to pay attention to here is that 60% social media users of 13-24 age are the users of Snapchat. The popularity of Snapchat among young generation are more than the well-known Vine and Tumblr.

4. Time urgency

The crucial reason for the popularity of Snapchat undoubtedly lies to its feature of removing the sharing stuff in a period, namely the content that users post will disappear within 24 hours. This kind of novel function generates a sense of urgency which make users afraid of missing some interesting things and want to catch them in time.

Are you using Snapchat? I guess the answer is more likely to be “Yes”. Then you will confronted with a issue when you got a new phone-- how to transfer the app to your new iPhone for remaining the information stored inside. However, you don’t have to give some thoughts about it if you download Gihosoft Phone Transfer that has power to transfer your app from phone to phone.

Here is a tutorial on transferring data from iPhone to Android, you may refer to it and get your apps moved.

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3 Ways to Transfer Contacts from iPhone to Android

It’s reported that generally the market share of Android has been increased to over 70% while the share of iOS is beginning to slide. Whatever the reason is for such phenomenon, the fact is that there will be a trend of more smart phone users swaping iPhone to Android Phone.

Copying contacts from iPhone to Android might be the very first thing to do when you got a brand new Android phone. The process is not too complicated to do, but it requires a few steps and a little time which actually depend on the method you choose, and this blog will show you three ways to transfer contacts from iPhone to Android more easily.

Transfer contacts from iPhone to Android

This is supposed to be the most convenient way among the four solutions which are going to be explained below.

Step 1. Download and install Gihosoft Phone Transfer

A free trial version is available on the phone transfer official website, which can only allow you to transfer 10 contacts from iPhone to Android phone for free. If you buy the software, you are refrained from exporting contacts within a limited amount. Once you registered the software, feel free to move any files such as contacts, SMS, calendar, photos, videos, music and even apps, from iPhone to other Android smartphones.

Step 2. Connect iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S7/S8 to PC

When you open Gihosoft mobile phone transfer software, please tap "Phone to Phone" and then connect both iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S6/S7 edge/S8 to your PC via USB cable. If your Samsung Galaxy phone or iPhone fails to be recognized, you may unplug it and retry again.

Step 3. Select the file you want to transfer from iPhone to Android 

What you need to do is to tick “Contacts” on the middle of interface screen. If you need to transfer other files, you should select the files that you need to transfer from iPhone to new Android phone.

Step 4. Start transferring contacts from iPhone to Samsung Galaxy S7/S8

Once you click “Start Copy” button, the software will immediately begin transferring the iPhone contacts to the Samsung Galaxy. All information related to the contacts such as profile, name, title, company and email address will be completely copied to the Android phone.

An Alternative way to transfer contacts from iPhone to Android

iTunes is Apple’s powerful software that is able to backup loads of data from iPhone and sync the data to other smartphones. When moving phone data like contacts to other phones, the latest version of iTunes would be highly recommended.

iPhone:

1. Launch the latest iTunes and plug your iPhone to the PC via USB cable.

2. Navigate to the device settings and go to “Info” tab.

3. Tick “Sync Contacts with” under the tab, and select “Google Contacts” from the drop-down list.

4. Enter your Gmail username and password on the pop-up prompt as an admission of syncing contacts.

Samsung Galaxy:

1. Navigate to Settings > Accounts (and Sync)

2. Add “Google account” and tick “Sync Contacts” to allow google to sync contacts to your new phone

Last but not least method to move contacts from iPhone to Android

iCloud, another service provided by Apple, is created to backup iPhone files with limited storage space, if you need more space, you have to pay for it. However, it is fairly useful to transfer small files like contacts from iPhone to Android.

1. Navigate to Settings> iCloud> enter iCloud username and password to sign in.

2. Tab “Contacts” to sync iPhone contacts with iCloud server under network.

3. Export contacts stored in a VCF file from iCloud, then copy the VCF file to the Android phone via USB or other third party tools.

4. Open Android phone, go to “Contacts”> “More”> “Import/Export contacts”> Import from VCF file.

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iOS to Android: Transfer Data from iPhone to Android Devices

iOS system and Android system stand at the opposite position since they were born, and there are pros and cons in these two systems. Some may be into iOS system, so they get iPhone, while some may be big fans of Android system, then they will go to Samsung, LG or HTC. No matter what kind of phone you own now, you are bound to switch to another phone one day which may be iPhone or Android phone. At that time, an issue would occur-- transferring your precious data from iPhone to Android or Android to iPhone. But how?

This article is structured to give some ideas how to transfer data from iPhone to your new Android phone.

There exits many ways to transfer data from an iPhone to a new Android phone, and here comes a common simple method-- transferring data from iPhone to Android by using USB cable.

1. Plug your iPhone to PC via a USB cable, and then choose “Import Pictures and Videos” for an automatic transfer (or open the device and individually select the files that you want to move)
2. After completely backed up your phone files on the PC, please connect the Android phone to the PC
3. Drag and Drop the back-up files to your Android phone

This way should be wildly known by every smartphone user, but the flaw of adopting it to transfer phone data is that using USB cable cannot move contents like contacts and call log. Therefore, another way to copy iPhone data to Android would be necessary.  

Samsung Smart Switch plays a fantastic role in migrating data from a smartphone to a Samsung Galaxy, such as Galaxy S8/S8+/S7/S7 edge, S6/S6 edge, S5 and other Samsung models. If you are planning on moving to a shiny new Samsung Galaxy, you probably want to familiarize yourself with this tool. With that in mind, let’s take a quick tour through Samsung Smart Switch.

Smart Switch are designed for three versions-- Windows version, Mac version and phone application. In the eventuality that you are transferring data from iPhone to Galaxy S6/S7 via Smart Switch app, the very first thing that you should do is to plug your iPhone to PC and using the desktop version of Smart Switch to pull data from iTunes or iCloud for later copying them to Galaxy S6/S7; the next step is to turn your Galaxy phone on and tap “yes” when prompted to use Smart Switch to receive data from iPhone; finally you are allowed to move contents to the Galaxy.

Admittedly Smart Switch is not bad for Samsung Phone transferring, but for other smartphones--iPhone, LG, HTC, Sony, Nexus and other models, it is still kind of a hassle. That’s why Gihosoft Phone Transfer software comes out, the supported devices of this software has prodigiously expanded to thousands of smartphones.  

Only few steps enable you to copy data from iPhone to Android or Android to iPhone in one click, please follow the below tutorial to transfer.

1. Download and install it on your desktop, then tap on "Phone to Phone" section.
2. Connect your iPhone and the new Android Phone to your PC, make the iPhone as “Source” Phone and the Android Phone as “Destination”
3. Select data that you want to migrate, then click “Start Copy” to transfer the data

After the transferring process is completed, you are able to find them on your Android phone.

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How to Transfer Photos from iPhone to iPhone (or an iPad)

Getting thousands of photos on your old iPhone but have no idea how to easily transfer photos from the old iPhone to your new iPhone? Usually the AirDrop on the iPhone may be a better option of transferring pictures from iPhone to iPhone, nevertheless, when it comes to transferring large photos, it would fall into failure. You may say iTunes can also do this work, it can definitely work if you don’t mind losing the existed photos on your iPhone.

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Someone may ask: Is there a way that can transfer photos from iPhone to iPhone or iPad fast and meanwhile keep the existed photos?

The answer is one hundred percent “Yes”, Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer would be a great alternative for iPhone users or smart phone users.

You can transfer photos from iPhone to iPhone/iPad in just a click via using Gihosoft Phone Transfer software. The software enables you to transfer pictures from an iPhone to a new iPhone/iPad in an efficient and safe way. Moreover, pictures synced from iTunes in PC can also be copied to iPhone/iPad. Generally speaking, Gihosoft Mobile Transfer is a technological implementation of seamless data sharing,  which helps  you to transfer video, music, contacts, apps and other files from iPhone to iPhone or other smartphones.

PLEASE follow the steps below to transfer photos from iPhone to iPhone via Gihosoft Phone Transfer:

1. Download and run Gihosoft phone to phone transfer software on your PC,  tap "Phone to Phone" and plug both of your old iPhone and a new iPhone to PC;

2. Make sure that the old iPhone connects as “Source” and the new iPhone as “Destination”; if not, please click “Flip” to change the position;

3. Click “Photos”, and then click “Start Copy” to transfer pictures from iPhone to iPhone.

Do you know any other ways to transfer photos from iPhone to iPhone or iPad? Any comments on this topic are welcome here.

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How to Transfer iTunes Music to Samsung Galaxy S8/S7/S6

Samsung and Apple are widely reckoned as two major giant smart phone manufacturers in the word. At present, they are reported to be respectively representative of Android phones and iOS phones. Every time either Samsung or Apple is about to release a new mobile phone, especially Samsung Galaxy series and new version of iPhone, it will be analyzed by phone lovers with the newest phone of the other brand. Therefore, it is no wonder that some people have Samsung phone and iPhone both.

With increasing space of phone storage, a great amount of phone users take their smart phone as a mobile “Music” phone. For those persons not in the know, they really need an efficient tool to transfer their loads of iTunes Music to the Samsung phone when they got a new Samsung galaxy phone like S8/S8+. How to do it?

The editor summarizes two easy-to-follow methods to put their music from iTunes to Samsung Galaxy phone.

Way 1: Using Samsung Smart Switch to Sync iTunes Music to Samsung Galaxy

Samsung Smart Switch  developed by Samsung can connect your Samsung Galaxy S6/S7/S8 to PC. It's useful and easy for you to move your music from iTunes to your phone, and it's available to download on the Samsung official website, the following introduction on transferring music from iTunes to Samsung Galaxy S8/S7/S6 by using Smart Switch on your Windows PC or Mac.

• Step 1. Download the Samsung Smart Switch of Windows version from Samsung website, then install and run it.
• Step2. Plug your Samsung Galaxy phone to the PC via USB. As your Galaxy phone is connected, click “Restore”> “Select a different backup”, then choose “iTunes backup data”.
• Step3. Select proper iTunes backup file, and tick “Music”, lastly click “OK” > “Restore now” to start the transferring.

Way2: Using Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer to move music from iTunes to Samsung Galaxy

To some users, Samsung Smart Switch may be a not bad tool to transfer music from iTunes to Samsung Galaxy S6/S7/S8, but it is a pity that Smart Switch cannot cover some older Samsung series such as Galaxy S2. What if you have a smartphone which it cannot support? No worries,  Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer is highly recommended to you, it is a powerful tool to support almost all of smartphones released in the world.

• Step 1.  Download Gihosoft Phone to Phone Transfer and run it. Then click “From iTunes Backup” from "Restore Data" section.
• Step 2. Select your iPhone backup, and tick the “Music” file. If you fail to find the backup file, you may sync your music to the iTunes first.
• Step 3. Plug  the Samsung Galaxy phone to the PC via USB,  then click “Start Copy” to transfer the music to your Samsung Galaxy.

YouTube Demo on How to Transfer Music from iTunes to Samsung Galaxy S8/S7/S6

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How to Transfer Contacts from Old iPhone to New iPhone 7/7 Plus

In reference to moving contacts from an iPhone to another iPhone, most people are inclined to count on iTunes or iCloud to move the data. However, actually there are some limitations to use these two tools to transfer data to another iPhone.

Let’s analyze the limitations on using iTunes and iCloud to transfer data like contacts, apps, videos and photos from iPhone to iPhone.

The features of using iTunes to backup:

1. Perfect for the users who always use PC, NB and Mac
2. No limitation for the storage space
3. Many large files like photos and apps can be backup in your iPhone
4. Fast to backup

The features of using iCloud to backup:

1. Perfect for the users who can reach Wi-Fi and 3G/4G network all the time
2. Only 5G storage space for free to backup
3. Few large files can be backup in your phone
4. Convenient to use without relying on PC

Note: The two tools only can backup the files downloaded from iPhone, that is to say, the files downloaded from PC and put in the iPhone cannot be backup.

Taking these features of iTune and iCloud into consideration, Gihosoft Phone to Phone Transfer is perfectly designed to transfer phone data, such as contacts, photos, apps and videos, from iPhone to iPhone or Android to iPhone. It is able to move the phone contacts under no Wi-fi circumstance, moreover, you don’t need to worry the “space” issue. If many persons at home use the same iTunes to back up iPhone files, or you are not using your own PC outside, there will be a problem to use iTunes to back up your personal files. Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer is considered to be a better tool to copy contacts from iPhone to iPhone, because it can be used everywhere and anytime.

1. Download and run Gihosoft Phone Transfer software on your PC, tap on "Phone to Phone" and connect both of your old iPhone and new iPhone with the PC.
2. Make sure that the old iPhone works as "Source" and the new iPhone as "Destination"; if not, please click "Flip" to change the position.
3. Click "Contacts" that you want to transfer, and click "Start Copy" to copy the iPhone contacts to another iPhone.

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