I turned an old phone into a hi-fi control system; now it gets more use than my actual cell
A technology journalist repurposed an old Pocophone as a dedicated hi-fi control system to manage his living room audio setup. He filled the device with a local library of WAV files to avoid streaming services and eliminate the complexity of managing multiple Bluetooth connections. The dedicated phone now sees more regular use than his primary mobile device for listening to music.
- ▪The author converted an old Pocophone into a dedicated controller for his Edifier M90 speakers.
- ▪The device was reset and kept in Airplane mode to prevent unnecessary app clutter and battery drain.
- ▪Instead of using streaming services, the phone stores several thousand WAV files ripped from a physical CD collection.
- ▪The setup solves the issue of tangled Bluetooth connections by providing a dedicated, always-plugged-in source for audio.
- ▪The repurposed phone has become more frequently used than the author's actual daily driver smartphone.
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| Original publisher | Android Police |
| Canonical URL | https://www.androidpolice.com/i-turned-an-old-phone-into-a-hi-fi-control-system/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:30:10 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-20T13:33:46.743Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-20T13:33:46.743Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | VTE3j33vaH6N · 1 stories |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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