HTC has announced via Facebook that through their new partnership with Dropbox, all future Android devices of theirs will come with 5GB of free storage. Normal free Dropbox accounts only come with 2GB, so this is a nice boost to anyone that plans on buying an HTC phone in the near future, like say the Rezound on November 10. No word on if they will give current HTC handset owners the 5GB bonus.

Via:  Facebook

In addition to the free 2GB of storage that users receive when signing up for popular cloud storage service Dropbox, owners of new HTC Sense 3.5 devices – like the Rhyme – will get an additional 3GB for free. There are a variety of cloud services tied to other operating systems and phones, so this newly formed partnership between Dropbox and HTC simply makes sense.  While it’s not the 25GB that Windows Phone 7 users get with Skydrive, it’s at least a step in the right direction.  Our lives are revolving more and more around cloud storage these days; it’s about time an Android phone manufacturer did something on this front.

And not that we have confirmation on this, but it’s pretty unlikely that older phones like the Thunderbolt or Incredible 2 will receive this added bonus or Sense 3.5.  HTC definitely hasn’t show that it is the type of company to work backwards with its Sense skin.  The funny thing is, Sense 3.5 is clearly able to run on lower-end phones (single-core processor, 768MB of RAM, etc), but will likely only see it on new phones going forward.

Via:  Pocket Lint

So we just got turned on to this sweet little photo uploading app called DropSnap, thanks our boy MrPicolas who found this in the market yesterday.  The idea of the app is simple, but man is it something we’ve been waiting for as cloud sharing addicts.  DropSnap allows you to automatically upload photos from your device straight to your DropBox account.  By selecting a directory to monitor, DS knows almost instantly when you have taken or added a new photo and will then toss it straight up to DropBox.  You can set up syncing options and times, notifications on uploads, and choose where you want the photos to go.  We should point out that the automatic syncing comes with an in-app purchase of $3.99 though – without the upgrade it will simply notify you of new items to upload.