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this is PocketNow and I'm Joshua Vergara what's going on everybody now we're going to be doing a video today that I think a lot of you have been waiting for we're going to talk about the kinds of daily apps we use and the daily drivers we use them on now in my case I use the pixel 3a this is definitely a palate cleanser of a phone I mean us tech reviewers we review so many of these smart phones that sometimes it's nice to come back to something a little bit simple generally I hold two phones on me at all times and the pixel 3a is one of them while the other device is the device that I'm reviewing currently but let's go ahead and jump into it to be honest when you're using so many phones on a regular basis you know exactly what applications you need what kind of customizations you make and honestly you don't want to fuss too hard that's the reason why I don't really put any third-party launchers on my phones this is just the pixel launcher after all this is the pixel 3a so it's pretty easy to just leave this launcher on and be happy with it and I do have this background here that if I double tap on the background it'll light up to actually show my logo but I haven't dimmed out so it's a little bit more subtle this is via an app called mousse a I don't even know if I'm pronouncing that right but Musee is a wallpaper app that creates a live wallpaper based upon either a feed of photos or a photo of your choosing in my case it's obviously my logo and what I did is I just dimmed out the brightness of the actual wallpaper put a little bit of a blur on there that way it blends in a lot better mousse a is a very popular wallpaper application you probably have heard about it but if you haven't there are links into the Play Store in the description below now as you can see my setup here I just have the folders here on the bottom and that's how I categorize everything the first area is for communications then I have tools here obviously as a youtuber I have these two YouTube apps and then social media and finally one of the most important parts the imaging now the applications that I use in the imaging folder are basically tools for the different cameras that I use the Panasonic image app is actually what I use in order to ensure that I have good focus on you it gives me a remote control any second monitor using the smartphone and I can hit record using the smartphone if I wanted to you know it's funny I'm going through my ab drawer right now I do actually have a lot of applications I actually have duplicates in the way I have a couple of meditation applications one of them I'll talk about later I obviously have redundant applications like the moment camera on top of the regular camera so that's what you kind of call app hoarding so there's not a whole lot of minimalism here because there are applications here that I literally use for one specific purpose but in this video I'm going to talk about the types of apps that I use more often definitely more of a daily app experience this is the game that I'm playing right now I actually really enjoy this the first act is free in grim valor and if you pay $7 you get all 5x I think it's 5 maybe it's 6 it's super-fun it works really well even on the pixel 3a and honestly I don't see any performance losses on here everything looks really nice and it's a very fluid gaming experience nice dodge I think you're going to see something a little more out of the ordinary and once I jump into the tools folder there are a few things here that are obvious Google Maps is one of them but then you have Google 5 I do use this phone with Google 5 and the fact that it does an e sim with the fine network is really useful especially when I'm abroad now the ECM is really important because if I'm abroad and I don't have a sim tool I always have this phone on me that way I can activate the Eason and be able to use Google 5 no matter where I am Amazon Kindle now there's a good reason for this I'm sure we've all done the same thing where we thought we were going to be reading books on a long flight or even a road trip only to end up watching stuff on our phones or watching all of the movies in the entertainment center well because of that and I'm guilty of it so much bringing my Amazon Kindle on long trips has become less of a priority but sometimes if I do find myself wanting to read something I have kids all in the smartphones but one thing I do like to do is turn on the nightlight that way this screen limits a little bit of the blue light gets a little bit in that direction of a comfortable Kindle reading experience and then it's easier for me to just read to my heart's content and then finally here the insight timer now this is a meditation timer I remember back in the day I used to use this app before those guided meditations were available for free it used to just be a timer like literally you could even turn on the timer in Android said 15 minutes and you're good to go but a timer like this was nice because it was more soothing it had some soothing background noises and those are really nice to be able to come out of your meditation or at least to know how far you've gone there are free meditations inside of here so if you'd want to know what you're getting into you can actually do these guided meditations and honestly most of them are less than 15 minutes so if you just want to take a little bit of time for yourself and actually let your mind wander or even clear out your mind a little bit this is a great place to do it and then I mentioned AB hoarding earlier there's actually one application that I can kind of get rid of here HBO now do you guys know why right most of you probably saw that Game of Thrones finale and now the final application obviously the sponsor of this video is the brave browser I can head over to the home pages and it already shows me how many ads were blocked trackers during my browsing but what I really wanted to show off is right up here these are the brave rewards now I don't have any right now and the reason why is because I haven't actually watched any ads that give me these be 80 tokens or bat tokens this is cryptocurrency that has awarded to you when you watch particular ads and that ad revenue actually kind of goes to you and this is super interesting because there are so many websites out there that have a lot of ads just sprawled across their page and brave automatically blocks all of that so you have a seamless internet viewing experience at least with brave rewards it'll give you a notification or it will actually ask you to watch certain ads which will then award you some of these bad tokens and then you just put that back into the system towards the websites that you actually want to support but aside from that it's basically chrome like there's really nothing that's different about it for the most part other than this rewards apparatus and the fact that it shows you all of the different ads and trackers that has blocked over time and so there you have it those are the apps that I use basically on the daily at least the more unique ones I obviously didn't want to get into anything that showed my personal information off or even social media networks that you know I'm probably on like Instagram and Twitter now there's a little bit of customization involved here a little bit of specific personal daily applications and of course that brave browser I want to give a quick thanks to the brave browser for sponsoring this video and yes I do actually use their browser especially on desktop but it's no harm done actually putting it on a for those few times you get into a browser when surfing the internet in any case we're gonna go ahead and call it on this one thank you so much for watching once again subscribe to this channel if you haven't already and also you can find out what else I'm up to by heading over to my channel youtube.com slash or Vergara thank you once again for watching and we will see you in our 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