iPhone photo shifticator
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I was digging around the San Disk page earlier and I came across the iXpand Flash Drive.
Essentially it's a USB drive for your iPhone/iPad.
http://www.sandisk.com/products/mobile/ixpand/
Has anyone used something like this before?
Are they any good?It looks, at the very least, like a very useful offline backup for those who don't want to put all their eggs in the iCloud basked (if any
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Neat idea. Basically storage that attaches through the Lightning connector. It's a good idea. Have not seen one in real life, though.
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Oh that's nifty! I have always just plugged my iPhone into my laptop and done a drag 'n drop for my photos onto my hard drive so I could regularly clean my phone off though. I hmtake lots of phone pics so I was constantly filling up my 32 gb. I just upgraded to a 64gb iPhone 6+ though. So maybe I won't have to clean it off quite as often. We shall see.
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@NetworkNerdWifey said:
Oh that's nifty! I have always just plugged my iPhone into my laptop and done a drag 'n drop for my photos onto my hard drive so I could regularly clean my phone off though. I hmtake lots of phone pics so I was constantly filling up my 32 gb. I just upgraded to a 64gb iPhone 6+ though. So maybe I won't have to clean it off quite as often. We shall see.
I would bet they do it on iPhones as well, but on Android you can link your camera roll to Dropbox and/or OneDrive. With OneDrive now holding 1TB of data, you could install the client on your computer and everything would be automagic.
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@thanksaj said:
@NetworkNerdWifey said:
Oh that's nifty! I have always just plugged my iPhone into my laptop and done a drag 'n drop for my photos onto my hard drive so I could regularly clean my phone off though. I hmtake lots of phone pics so I was constantly filling up my 32 gb. I just upgraded to a 64gb iPhone 6+ though. So maybe I won't have to clean it off quite as often. We shall see.
I would bet they do it on iPhones as well, but on Android you can link your camera roll to Dropbox and/or OneDrive. With OneDrive now holding 1TB of data, you could install the client on your computer and everything would be automagic.
Yes, there was a case of just that in the news or police reports. Woman had her iPhone stolen used and 'returned' but all the images were gone. But they were on her iPad since it was synced via iCloud.
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@g.jacobse said:
@thanksaj said:
@NetworkNerdWifey said:
Oh that's nifty! I have always just plugged my iPhone into my laptop and done a drag 'n drop for my photos onto my hard drive so I could regularly clean my phone off though. I hmtake lots of phone pics so I was constantly filling up my 32 gb. I just upgraded to a 64gb iPhone 6+ though. So maybe I won't have to clean it off quite as often. We shall see.
I would bet they do it on iPhones as well, but on Android you can link your camera roll to Dropbox and/or OneDrive. With OneDrive now holding 1TB of data, you could install the client on your computer and everything would be automagic.
Yes, there was a case of just that in the news or police reports. Woman had her iPhone stolen used and 'returned' but all the images were gone. But they were on her iPad since it was synced via iCloud.
And that's the thing...most people are upset if they get their camera stolen, or their phone, but the item itself is replaceable pretty easily. The pictures that are stored on it, though, are often not so easy to replace. When you hear of people taking photos of loved ones who die right before they die, or pictures of a child's first steps, etc, those can't be replaced.
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@thanksaj said:
@g.jacobse said:
@thanksaj said:
@NetworkNerdWifey said:
Oh that's nifty! I have always just plugged my iPhone into my laptop and done a drag 'n drop for my photos onto my hard drive so I could regularly clean my phone off though. I hmtake lots of phone pics so I was constantly filling up my 32 gb. I just upgraded to a 64gb iPhone 6+ though. So maybe I won't have to clean it off quite as often. We shall see.
I would bet they do it on iPhones as well, but on Android you can link your camera roll to Dropbox and/or OneDrive. With OneDrive now holding 1TB of data, you could install the client on your computer and everything would be automagic.
Yes, there was a case of just that in the news or police reports. Woman had her iPhone stolen used and 'returned' but all the images were gone. But they were on her iPad since it was synced via iCloud.
And that's the thing...most people are upset if they get their camera stolen, or their phone, but the item itself is replaceable pretty easily. The pictures that are stored on it, though, are often not so easy to replace. When you hear of people taking photos of loved ones who die right before they die, or pictures of a child's first steps, etc, those can't be replaced.
This is why I tell my fiance to email/backup her photos as much as possible...
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@coliver said:
@thanksaj said:
@g.jacobse said:
@thanksaj said:
@NetworkNerdWifey said:
Oh that's nifty! I have always just plugged my iPhone into my laptop and done a drag 'n drop for my photos onto my hard drive so I could regularly clean my phone off though. I hmtake lots of phone pics so I was constantly filling up my 32 gb. I just upgraded to a 64gb iPhone 6+ though. So maybe I won't have to clean it off quite as often. We shall see.
I would bet they do it on iPhones as well, but on Android you can link your camera roll to Dropbox and/or OneDrive. With OneDrive now holding 1TB of data, you could install the client on your computer and everything would be automagic.
Yes, there was a case of just that in the news or police reports. Woman had her iPhone stolen used and 'returned' but all the images were gone. But they were on her iPad since it was synced via iCloud.
And that's the thing...most people are upset if they get their camera stolen, or their phone, but the item itself is replaceable pretty easily. The pictures that are stored on it, though, are often not so easy to replace. When you hear of people taking photos of loved ones who die right before they die, or pictures of a child's first steps, etc, those can't be replaced.
This is why I tell my fiance to email/backup her photos as much as possible...
I've been using Dropbox for years. When I was on my Windows phone, I used OneDrive. And now I use OneDrive and Dropbox. Didn't go out of my way to set it up that way. It kind of just defaulted during the initial setup of the app by asking if I wanted to do that, and I said yes. I never lose contacts because they are all connected to my Google account and not stored on the phone. Photos are all synced. Apps are stored under my Google account. I can't really think of anything that I store on my phone that isn't part of an account somewhere or connected to sync to something else. Anything at all.
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The vast majority of my iphone pics are just random stuff I post on Instagram and Facebook. For important stuff, I always use my real camera, if I can. But yeah, I know people who only use their phone and that would suck. I'll look into the stuff you mentioned, @thanksaj
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I use my iPhone a lot when I travel as it is so much of a pain to carry my SLR with me.
