Be smart with smart gifts! Media Markt’s post-holiday advice

By: Trademagazin Date: 2025. 01. 10. 11:29

Joy or headache? It is a great joy to see a gift phone under the Christmas tree and unwrap it, or even a new laptop or maybe a coffee maker. Then, in the blink of an eye, the terrifying thought arrives: how many pages are in the instruction manual?

MediaMarkt experts offer practical advice to help you make Christmas gifts bring you only moments of joy. That is why they also draw attention to a couple of important aspects.

Smartphone:

We have been using mobile phones for a relatively long time for more than just making calls or sending messages. With the latest smart devices, we can access all the information available on the Internet, and they are also an integral and essential part of our everyday life and work: we use them to keep in touch with our friends, make payments, organize our programs, and last but not least, we use them for entertainment, just think of social media, videos, and music. To make sure everything works at least as well as it did on your previous device, follow these steps:

Always make a backup of your old device. Make a list of essential apps and services so that you don’t accidentally leave anything out, and then check that you know all the access, usernames, and passwords!

It is recommended to familiarize yourself with the device’s menu and the unique services presented in it in detail to get the most out of it. Experts also recommend choosing a cloud storage for continuous backup of your data.

A used smartphone is also valuable! Never throw it away, and it is not worth keeping it in the back of your drawer. More and more dealers are accepting used devices, which are then refurbished and put back on the market. A good tip is that you can now buy high-quality used mobile phones with a warranty.

Smartwatch:

Unlike traditional watches, a smartwatch not only shows the time, but also provides valuable information about your health and fitness. Since it also displays messages and notifications, as a conscious user, we should pay attention to when and how often the watch can disturb us by vibrating. For example, it is not worth letting insignificant social media notifications startle us while working or during a pleasant conversation.

One of the biggest advantages of smartwatches lies in the diversity of health functions. It is worth getting acquainted with the use of heart rate monitoring, ECG and sleep analysis! If we wear the watch at night, we should definitely look for a setting that the watch will not accidentally disturb our sleep.