Android Phones for Your SD Card - By: Steve Mc Karmik

Android phones are phones that use the android operating system, which is the equivalent of something like Windows or Linux for your phone. In other words, it dictates what apps and software your pone can run, and greatly effects how fast and well it performs. Perhaps more noticeably for the layman it also affects the user interface and the logos and images you are presented with when you load up and just how you interact with these.

The main OS most of us will now be useful is that of the iPhone, and this seems to have almost dominance over the market. However already many other operating systems are beginning to try and topple the iPhone as providing the best service, and arguably one has achieved this aim - the OS in question being 'Android'. This is a piece of software designed seemingly to directly challenge the iPhone software while providing many similar features such as apps and pretty animations. However what it also does is to give the users more flexibility and freedom, allowing them to edit their own files at will (which should always have been an option) and to use things like 32GB Micro SDHC card to enhance their usage.

The problem with the iPhone has always been its tight control over the hardware and software and this has limited its usefulness. By allowing you to use a 32GB Micro SDHC card, the android phones that support this hardware have effectively been granted unlimited space. You can download as many items as you want and then if you do manage to fill up your 32GB Micro SDHC card (already more than the largest iPhone capacity) you can just add another to give yourself more room.

At the same time you can use an SD card to give your phone the ability to communicate more quickly with the computer and this means you don't have to 'sync' your device each time you use it. You can in fact use your phone this way as a mass storage device and as you always carry your phone with you that means you'll always have access to the files you keep there.

This also gives your apps a large range of extra abilities that iPhone simply can't match. For example you can use a file manager to browse the files on your 32GB Micro SDHC and then to e-mail them to people who need them. This means that if you’re stuck without a wireless connection you can still upload things for business etc - simply put them on your card and send them by e-mail. Likewise the emulators available on Android that allow you to play full Gameboy, Megadrive and even Playstation games on your phone (as long as you have bought the originals) can let you download and edit ROMS onto your memory card on the fly.

An SD card can also be used to help repair your phone in a crisis - if you need to give your phone something to boot off or to manually update your software for example. This also means that you can upgrade your phone's memory as newer, larger memory cards come out and generally exponentially enhance your user experience of your phone.

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Use a 64GB compact flash with your phone to greatly increase its usefulness. For many models it will need to be a 32GB Micro SDHC.

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