Comments on: Google Drive Could Launch Week of April 16, Users to Get 5GB of Storage

By: Miguel M.

Miguel M. — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:46:00 +0000

Gonna love this.

By: TC Infantino

TC Infantino — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:50:00 +0000

One of the cool things that the new update to the Google Play store added is just what you are talking about. If you go into Google Play Store and under the menu choose my apps it shows which apps are installed, but if you swipe to the left it shows a column called ‘All’. That column shows every app I have ever installed on both my OG Droid, and now my Rezound, even the free ones. The only thing I can think that would be better is if it saved your data along with the apps as well.

By: Noyfb

Noyfb — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 07:14:00 +0000

ty ted

By: GRAND MASTER SEN$Ei {{-_-}}™

GRAND MASTER SEN$Ei {{-_-}}™ — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:32:00 +0000

5GB for free? Now THAT’S more like it! {{-_-}}

By: Tempoeffects

Tempoeffects — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:22:00 +0000

I am looking forward to this, although I should say that with no way to get more than 5GB for free, it may dampen my spirits. If you are going to be a new user to Dropbox, and want more than the regular referral bonus (i.e. you want 500MB for free as a bonus instead of 250MB), use this link: http://db.tt/NSEAntK.

By: Ted Pavlic

Ted Pavlic — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:22:00 +0000

How do you feel about using YouTube? Or Picasa? Both are Google services, and both allow for uploading videos, keeping them private, and playing them anywhere. In principle, at least from YouTube, you can download the videos, but most people would probably recommending keeping a backup somewhere. Still, the video streaming services already available at least take them off your phone and still let you access them.

Minus.com also provides a good deal of space, has video support, and lets you download exactly what you uploaded. It also has an Android app that makes uploading easy. (you could say the same about several other similar cloud storage sites, like SugarSync, but they have weird idiosyncrasies or low storage space or poor platform compatibility or a crappy web interface)

By: Tom_Cullen

Tom_Cullen — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:23:00 +0000

the removal of the local dropbox folder on the device was a big turn off for me. having to manually export every file you want to sync up with dropbox was a big step backwards.

By: Loki

Loki — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:29:00 +0000

I need cloud storage for my HD videos I take with my phone. HD videos eat up all my memory on my phone. I have an old pc from 5 years ago and don’t like to download the use a video converter to convert vids to pc. takes up hours of time. Will google storage have Video storage? Any alternative cloud storage for hd videos?

By: tryptech

tryptech — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:15:00 +0000

Yeah, because absolutely none of the free alternatives mine the information you feed them

By: Lane Wollenweber

Lane Wollenweber — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:18:00 +0000

Also take a look at MyBackup Pro. I used this for backup before and during the .596 to .602 to .605 Android update (DroidX not getting ICS).

It’s pretty simple to use and I chose the Pro over the free version for more storage & being able to access My Stuff stored on Their cloud (free doesn’t allow this). I’ve also chosen their $2/month for over 1GB storage, although I’m not sure of its limits or storage capacity (sorry).

It backs up Apps (Market, Free & others), Songs, Pictures and whatever the hell else you have on your phone. I’ve since removed the pictures cause that takes up a lot of unnecessary space & it’s dumb to pay for what’s on a USB. Check it out, perhaps it’ll interest you…

https://www.rerware.com/Android-Backup/

By: Sean Maloney

Sean Maloney — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:48:00 +0000

Windows 8 is built around synching data with “the cloud”. For home users, all your data and settings are automatically sync’ed with Skydrive in real time, so you can switch to any other Windows 8 device (including a Windows 8 phone!) and have all your stuff, except non-Metro apps. You can even boot Windows 8 from a USB flash drive in a library for example, and have access to all your stuff. I’m guessing they will increase the SkyDrive’s free storage space when Windows 8 is released. Plus you can buy more storage space which will likely encourage people who already pay for online backups to switch to SkyDrive.

For corporate use, it has company-wide de-duping and you direct the sync to corporate servers. They are also heavily pushing App-V so your apps follow you as well, which is not like app streaming. Apps work even offline.

By: 2001400ex

2001400ex — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:32:00 +0000

I will try it out. Thanks for the heads up!!! I reset my phone for various reasons every few months and this will save a ton of time!

By: Kernschatten

Kernschatten — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:28:00 +0000

I did a factory reset on my A200 after the ICS update. Reinstalled everything fine. Cleared cache on the Play Store and then took about five minutes for the Play Store to show all my installed apps and pending updates.

I also use it to back up apps before installing a potentially buggy update. I can always uninstall the updated app and reinstall the APK from the appSaver backup. Future updates always show up.

By: Kernschatten

Kernschatten — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:12:00 +0000

Hopefully there won’t be any Apple employees using these to store patent information.

By: 2001400ex

2001400ex — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:01:00 +0000

Does it break the link with the play store? In that, I have used Astro to backup each app, but when I reinstall from Astro, they no longer get updates from the play store.