Check technical characteristics of the mobile phone from settings

What’s more, we won’t always have to resort to a third-party application that we can find in the app store, but we will be able to find out the specifications of our phone in one way or another without having to download any software that ‘chives’ us each of its components and characteristics that compose it. For this reason, we will give you the most important keys so that you can review the information on your smartphone on your own.

Don’t know the model?

It may seem strange, but there are still users who decide to buy one phone or another for its price, and although it is understandable, there are many occasions when, after a while, we do not know what model it is exactly. Something that will be essential to know its characteristics.

Fortunately, the method to find out which model we have in our possession is quick and simple. Basically, because we will have this small detail available in the settings of the terminal itself, so it will not be a headache to find this information.

Watch it on Android

However, its location may vary, not only if we have an Android phone or an iPhone, but also due to the manufacturer’s own customization layer, since each one can vary the name of the section in which this detail is found. First, we will start with Android smartphones:

• Access your phone’s settings.
• Go to the Phone information / System / About phone section (its name may vary depending on the software of your smartphone company).
• Within this section, we must find a section in which an option called Model / Name of the device comes directly.

However, this last section that we have just seen, may also vary again depending on the software layer. We will even find different tabs that will tell us what model we have, as we can see in the previous image. Of course, in the Device Name option, we can put the one we want.

You can find it on iPhone

In the case of Apple mobiles there will be no more mystery, in addition to the fact that the steps will always be the same for all iPhones:

• Enter the smartphone settings.
• Click on the General section > tap on Information .
• Look at the Model Name. There you will see the model that you will have from Apple.

Compared to Android phones, within iOS we find it easier. Since, even with the passage of time, the name of the sections has been maintained. So it will be much faster and easier to find which iPhone we have.

Discover its features

Now that we know the model, the next step will be to find out the specifications of a phone . However, even if it is just as simple, the software of your smartphone brand may not provide you with as much information as others, as we will see later, so we will give you one last option in the next section. In addition, we will give you the keys so that you can find out this data on both Android and iPhone mobiles.

on Android

The information about the characteristics of a mobile with the Google operating system will change according to the customization layer of your smartphone. But, to be able to dig a little into the technical specifications of the Android terminal, these will be the steps that you will have to follow:

• Access the smartphone settings.
• Enter the section called About the phone (you may first have to enter System).
• Within this section, we can find different data : Android version, the processor, the device’s RAM, the cameras, whether it has NFC or not, dual SIM, the free and total storage of the terminal or the resolution of the terminal’s screen.

However, not in all Android terminals we will find all this data, although in general we will always be able to see the data of the RAM , the screen resolution and the total/available memory of the phone.

Even in the Storage section we will also see the amount of free memory that we have available. Also, if we enable the developer options we can access an extra section called Memory in which we can see the total memory, the average use (in percentage) and the amount that is free.

on iPhone

The negative side of Apple phones is that it will be difficult to find so much data from our phone in its own settings. That is why many users turn to a third-party application that can provide them with this information. However, if we follow this process, we will be able to see some of the characteristics of the mobile that our own iPhone offers us:

• Go into the settings.
• Access the General section.
• Click on Information .

Once inside this section of the terminal settings, we will have access to different data that may be of interest to us: the software version, the total capacity of the terminal and the memory that we have available. However, as we had already warned you, the options within the iPhone are quite limited compared to Android. Luckily, we will give you an equally or more useful method in the next section.

with a website

As we have already seen, we will not always be able to find all the features of our phone if we do not resort to the help of an application. However, if you’re one of those who don’t want to have to install any type of app to check just one detail of your mobile, you’re in luck, because you’ll also be able to quickly see any technical aspect of your smartphone thanks to a web page.

In the first place, we will always recommend you to go to the website of the manufacturer of your smartphone, whether it is Android or iPhone. The negative side is that, if the terminal is somewhat outdated, it may no longer appear on the official brand page, so we will have to resort to another website to help us with this.

For this reason, we bring you the perfect solution, which will only take a few seconds. The page we recommend is called DeviceSpecifications . Once you access it, you can use its quick search engine to write the model of your terminal, so it has been great for you to know this aspect. Once you write the model, you will have to choose it in the dropdown that will open. By clicking on it, you can see the following features :

• Dimensions.
• Weight.
• SoC, speed and number of processor cores.
• RAM.
• Internal memory.
• Screen.
• Battery.
• Operating system.
• Camera.
• SIM card.
• Wifi.
• USB.
• Bluetooth.
• Location/Navigation.

Use a specific app

However, we can also use some of the many App Store and Play Store applications that will let us see the features of the mobile we were looking for, whether it is an Android or iOS device. To make it easier for you, we will give you two options that will be most useful to you.

In this case, we find software that we have available in both app stores, so everything will be much easier. We are referring to the AIDA64 application, in addition to the fact that it is completely free on both Android and iOS.

Once we have it downloaded to the phone, just do the following:

• Access the app.
• Click on each section to see its information .
• You will be able to see different components such as Processor , Memory , Screen , among many other options.