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SanDisk Made an iPhone Case With Built-In Storage (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader writes: SanDisk has made its iXpand Memory Case to alleviate the problem that Apple creates when they release an iPhone in 2016 with only 16GB of on-board storage. The iXpand Memory Case is an iPhone case with flash storage built directly into the case itself that connects/charges via the Lightning port. You won't need a new phone and you won't need to carry around an extra charging dongle, which is the case for many other third-party cases and accessories. Since Apple doesn't make expanding your storage with third-party devices easy, you will need to download/install the companion SanDisk iXpand Memory Case app on your iPhone, which will automatically back-up your camera roll and password-protect your photos and files. If you need some extra juice, you can spend an extra $40 to receive a 1900mAh battery pack that attaches to the case. The iXpand Memory Case is only available with the iPhone 6 and 6s and is available with 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB of extra flash storage for $59, $99, and $129, respectively. Oh, and of course there are varying color options: Red, Grey, Sky and Mint. Maybe your phone battery is running low (God-forbid it is dead) and you just so happen to be nearby a KFC in Delhi or Mumbai, KFC has you covered. They have introduced a meal box that doubles as a smartphone charger.
until you go to an area with poor coverage then all your cloud storage goes to shit. Also the govt can just grab your info off the cloud apparently
Apple sets its price points based on flash storage amount. If people can easily add more storage, that will be a win for the consumer. Yay, competition!
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iPhone case with flash storage built directly into the case...
Or I can buy a phone with an SD card slot built directly into the phone
You won't need a new phone and you won't need to carry around an extra charging dongle...
No I won't will I?
Since Apple doesn't make expanding your storage with third-party devices easy...
Other phone manufacturers do however, so I'll just buy one of their products.
may as well drive the car with felt padding on all the seats and panels and chrome rims.
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Selling 128GB flash drives for $20 more than 32GB flash drives isn't nearly as profitable as selling 128GB flash drive cases for $70 more than 32GB flash drive cases.
...maybe Apple could implement some user-friendly pseudoinnovation, like using the lightning port for attaching mass storage devices and some kind of filesystem to go along with it.
And while I'm thinking about it, have any iOS apps ever tried to use the camera roll as a generic filesystem? I'd imagine that the APIs make sure you're storing data that has the right filetype magic that matches supported image files, but do they resample it or otherwise manipulate the data so that you couldn't store random data to the camera roll?
Is there any reason you couldn't store an MP3 in the camera roll with just enough encoding to make the OS think it was a JPG but that apps that knew "this one trick" couldn't read it?
Ooh. Fifty gigabytes. That will almost hold the contents of my phone. Once. Or the contents of one of my DSLR's flash cards.
Only hipsters think the cloud is a viable means of moving large quantities of content between devices.
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What % of iPhone users would you call 'hipsters'? What % of 'hipsters' are on Android?
Speaking as a Windows Phone user (yes, the elite .7%) I can report that there are no hipsters here, just the foolish who haven't jumped ship yet.
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A server is a machine - a piece of hardware. the cloud could be anywhere on the planet and is virtualized, it is abstracted away from a server. so server is not cloud. cloud software generally doesn't know nor care about the hardware that it is sitting on.
No, a server is any machine and/or software that serves data. I could run many servers off of a single PC or load balance them across many PCs. They are still servers regardless of the distribution across the underlying hardware.
The term "cloud" is marketing bullshit.
You carry a lot of porn around huh?
But nobody moves large quantities of content between devices.
They look up a contact, listen to a song, or show a coworker a picture of their dog.
We don't use our phones to edit the next Pixar film. 99% of my time on a mobile device is spent on apps that require connectivity anyway.
I do. I do it every time I import photos from my DSLR. I move tens of gigabytes at a time from the camera to a computer. In some cases, I then painfully upload tens of gigabytes to a server in another state so that other folks can enjoy the pics as well. That last part takes weeks, thanks to (IIRC) 768 kbps DSL upload speeds. I don't move them to my phone because my phone can't hold any meaningful percentage of my photos anyway. I also don't access them online very often, because it is an order of magnitude too slow.
Ah, but what you're missing is that the main reason we don't use mobile devices for more things is that they have inadequate storage and no good way to move content into and out of them. Otherwise, people would be doing video editing on iPads far more than they do. I mean, the editing workflow of slicing things and dragging chunks around lends itself to a touch interface, but it needs hundreds of gigabytes of storage backing it (not to mention lots of CPU behind it).
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Yeah!
Damn hipsters with their SD-cards.
Get a shave, and smaller on-board storage, damn hipsters!
It's probably the best attempt I've seen at increasing the iPhone's available storage (yeah, yeah, we know that Apple should allow microSD - you don't need to say it), but it seems rather overpriced.
Considering that cards from Sandisk are around $12 (32GB), $20 (64GB) and $40 (128GB) and considering $40-$45 for a case, then you should be looking at $55, $65 or $85.
Better yet, it should just have been sold as an empty shell of a case with a microSD slot for you to fill - although I appreciate that the profit margins on such a thing wouldn't have been quite so healthy.
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Most of us are too busy with important things to be using Facebook or Twitter or WhatsApp or whatever all day.
Usage statistics show this to be factually incorrect. Most of us are not too busy to communicate with friends and family using social networks. I'm in the small minority who doesn't use social networks.
yeah we have a little thing called 'DNS' that has been doing this for decades
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Quit confusing people with facts. It's a cloud, damn it!
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Mophie Space case yet... battery and storage for iPhones in one.
Unfortunately, the Mophie app (which is required for file management, same as the SanDisk) is a broken piece of absolute shit. My mophie has 64GB of storage, but will only manage 10k photos. (I have over 13k on my phone.) But it runs poorly even in the best of conditions.
I am horribly disappointed that SanDisk is only making this for the 6 series phones. It could have been a contender...