In recent years, the mobile phone industry has made significant progress in areas such as screen resolution, processing power or the quality of their cameras. But all these improvements also generate negative effects, such as reduced battery life.
Another effect of these developments is that the storage of equipment is more easily finished. And although some companies are offering versions with more memory (such as 128 GB of recent iPhones or S6 Galaxy line), they are always more expensive.Meanwhile, in the segment of market entry teams are offering only 8 GB of storage.
What to do to free up space on the phone or prevent these be filled? The options are many, but are summarized in a key word: support. Whether taking photos, videos or music device, all serve; and the tools to do ranging from cloud services to physical storage.
Here are some recommendations.
If what you want is to take pictures, there are a number of online options. Google Drive, Dropbox and onedrive (of Microsoft) offer good tools to support, but at the moment seems to be the best Flickr, both in features and in space. The photo service of Yahoo! offers 1TB of free storage for some time and now added new enhancements such as automatic backup mobile (iOS and Android) and computers, plus the option to download the photos easily.
In the case of music, the best way to avoid spending is streaming the songs and not loading them into memory, but there is a cost associated data (unless used WiFi). A free option for music streaming (no subscriptions) is Google Play Music, in addition to its paid service "All Access" has a free "digital locker".
There, users can publish their music computers (the system analyzes the library and look for songs in its catalog, and if not, the climbs) and access it on mobile iOS and Android, with the option to save some for playback offline . Alternative physical backups to store data on a mobile computer hardware are several from a backup on a computer until accepted by hundreds of devices microSD cards.
But an alternative that is gaining strength are USB sticks ("flash drives") that connect to phones. In iOS, there are several models, all offering a Lightning connector and USB. Leef is one of the companies that offers a pendrive for iPhone, Telkonet, in capacities of 16, 32 and 64 GB, while Sandisk offers iXpand, a little more advanced, with devices that have their own battery capacities of 16 series and 32 GB. Both are available in the Chilean market.
Both options are limited in performance: each requires the use of a specific application to store and access files without the data can be viewed in other software. Each program comes with a system to back up files from the phone and in case iXpand with a browser like what you would find on a computer.
Android is a more open platform, and therefore the storage options are too. Support for USB OTG ("on the go") is not in all devices with the platform, but where it exists, allows file browsers like FileExplorer and video players like VLC freely access content, making these products ideal for watching movies or music store. In this segment, Sony has a line memory with USB and microUSB connectors, like Sandisk, which premiered a model that adds USB 3.0 for faster data transfer.