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Cheap Cloud Storage — which one saves you the most?

Posted by Jerry Hildenbrand on 13 Jun 2017 9:00 am
Cloud Storage Options
Cloud storage is something ever more useful and ever more popular, but there's also a ton to choose from. Updated June 2017: Added current plans and pricing for the various online storage providers. Fortunately, most also have free trials, and any storage provider worth its salt is going to give you a few gigabytes of space for free anyway to try to get you to stick around. Let's take a look...

Box brings a new gallery, previewer to its updated Android app

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Posted by Phil Nickinson on 20 May 2014 12:00 pm
Box update
LG's continued partnership gets users 50GB of storage for free Cloud-storage provider Box today is releasing a major update to its Android application, adding a few new features and continuing its partnership with LG to bring a goodly amount of storage to the South Korean manufacturer's users for free. A new previewer in the app supports more than 100 file types so you can see exactly what...

MediaFire's new cloud storage plan offers 1TB of storage for $5/month

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Posted by Simon Sage on 8 Apr 2014 1:48 pm
MediaFire on Android
MediaFire has announced new pricing for their cloud storage service which is certainly competitive. They’re now offering a full terabyte for $5/month, and are knocking down that price by half as an early bird promotion. $2.50/month for a full terabyte of cloud storage with file sizes of up to 20GB is nothing to scoff at, and between a recently-refreshed desktop client and updated Android and...

Amazon offering 50GB of free cloud storage with a bunch of Android phones

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 4 Dec 2013 9:51 am
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Top phones from Samsung, LG, HTC and Motorola with free cloud storage for 12 months Amazon.com is hoping to tempt smartphone buyers with the offer of free cloud storage in the run up to the holidays. The online retail giant is offering customers 50 gigabytes of free Amazon cloud storage for 12 months with the purchase of a raft of different Android smartphones on various U.S. carriers. To name...

Box updated with design refresh, new widget

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 14 Aug 2013 2:22 am
Box
Account switching, new folder views and sorting highlight this update. A new update to Box is bringing several interface improvements to what was previously tired-looking app, including some new features to improve usability. First and most noticeable is a visual refresh to the home screen of the app, which now has an updated slide-in left panel for navigation between folders and access to...

Copy ups its free storage offering to 15GB, introduces 'Fair Storage'

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 16 May 2013 12:41 am
Copy app
Multiple users can show split the bill for shared storage costs The latest entrant in the cloud storage arena, Copy, is increasing the amount of free storage it offers to try and pull users away from other services. Following the announcement by Google that it will be unifying its free storage across services, Copy is now giving all free accounts 15GB of storage to start off with, up from 5GB...

New Nexus 4? Be sure to try out Box with 50GB of free storage

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 15 Feb 2013 9:41 am
Box.net
No, you're not dreaming, the Nexus 4 really has been on sale in the Play Store for over 2 weeks straight with no supply issues. We know that in the last couple of weeks, more people have probably picked it up than in the last couple of months, and that means there are a whole lot of new Nexus users out there. One of the big promotions that Box.net started running back in November still applies...

G Cloud Backup isn't made by Google, but does a pretty good job at backing up your Android device

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Posted by Richard Devine on 24 Jan 2013 2:58 pm
G Cloud Backup
Don't let the name confuse you, this isn't another app from Google. Despite the tenuous naming link, G Cloud Backup is made by a developer known as Genie9, and sets out to backup all your personal particulars on your Android device. We're not just talking about files and folders, or simply being a cloud locker in which to dump things either. SMS messages, contacts, external SD cards, call logs,...

MediaFire launches file sharing app, includes 50 GB of cloud storage

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Posted by Simon Sage on 16 Jan 2013 2:26 pm
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MediaFire has launched their cloud storage app for Android today, offering new users 50 GB of storage for free. Files can be easily shared via e-mail, social networks, SMS, and just about any other avenue you could need. There are a whole bunch of subscription tiers if you need to host more files, or need more flexibility with your hosting. 

Latest Google Drive app update brings native spreadsheet editing, home screen shortcuts and more

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 28 Nov 2012 2:31 pm
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If you're the sort of person who likes to edit spreadsheets on the go, then you'll be pleased to learn that the latest version of the Google Drive app for Android allows you to do just that. A new update to the Drive app released today introduces a half-dozen fairly significant features that should make mobile document editing a little easier. Previously limited to a slightly janky web-based...

LG Nexus 4 qualifies for 50GB free Box.net cloud storage

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 19 Nov 2012 5:29 am
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As it's being sold primarily by Google through the Play devices store, it's easy (and accurate) to think of the Nexus 4 as a Google device. But it's still an LG-made phone, and as such qualifies for 50GB of free space on Box.net, thanks to a partnership between manufacturer and cloud storage provider. To claim your free space, simply log into the Box.net app from your Nexus 4, and upon loading...

SkyDrive updated with SDcard uploads, feature improvements

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 15 Nov 2012 5:57 pm
SkyDrive App
Microsoft just announced updates to both its Android and Windows Phone versions of its SkyDrive app, which is their version of a consumer cloud storage solution. This latest update -- version 1.1 -- brings the ability for users to upload any file type to their SkyDrive directly from the SDcard, rather than only from internal storage. Additionally, Android users can now properly manage and rename...

Google Play Music now live in selected European countries

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Posted by Richard Devine on 12 Nov 2012 6:47 pm
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Google Play Music services are now live in some European countries. Warner Music Group artists now available worldwide. Today isn't just Nexus Eve, at least, not in Europe anyway. Today also sees the long awaited arrival of Google Play Music on these shores! Customers in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain can now not only make use of Google's cloud storage service -- officially, at least...

AT&T launching cloud-based storage service

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 1 Nov 2012 4:32 pm
AT&T Locker
AT&T Locker is a service not unlike the offerings from Dropbox and Google Drive, and it has actually been available for some time on Android. The app has just been updated in the Play Store to add features, and has also launched on iOS today as well. AT&T is really pushing this cloud storage service as a way to store and share media like pictures and videos, but it will work just fine...

'My Xperia' trademark filing points to possible Sony cloud service

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 23 Oct 2012 5:56 am
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A trademark filing by Sony Mobile suggests the company may look to launch its own mobile-centric cloud service in the future. Sony has applied to trademark the term "MyXperia" at the European OHIM (Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market), and the listing is available online for all to see.  The trademark application lists a number of mobile-based services for MyXperia, including “upload...

LG enters the cloud storage arena, connecting your Android device to your LG Smart TV

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Posted by Richard Devine on 30 Apr 2012 8:03 am
LG Cloud
  LG clearly doesn't think we have too much choice in cloud storage, as the company has launched the imaginatively titled LG Cloud. The stand out feature on this one though, is that the service integrates with your LG Smart TV. Out of the box, free storage is a pretty standard 5GB, although naturally LG owners are favorably advantaged. LG Android phone and LG Smart TV owners get 50GB for free,...

Google Drive cloud storage service launches, 5GB free space for all

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 24 Apr 2012 12:47 pm
Google Drive
Google's worst kept secret in recent years is finally official -- Google Drive, the company's cloud storage service, has been announced. The service offers 5GB of storage for free, with paid storage also available offering up to 16TB of space. Being a Google service, much of the focus of Google Drive is on its web interface, available now at drive.google.com. Like cloud storage incumbents...

Dropbox for Android updates, folder linking now available

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 23 Apr 2012 5:37 pm
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The Dropbox app for Android (and the related web service and desktop apps) has been updated today with "performance improvements and bug fixes", along with the option to share links to specific files or folders. The idea is to make it easier to make stuff you've uploaded directly accessible by providing a button next to them on the web site and mobile app. If you recognize these new features, it...

Google Drive shows up on Android developers device during Google+ Hangout

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Posted by Bla1ze on 21 Apr 2012 8:05 pm
Google Drive
By now the existence of Google Drive isn't really a question. It does exist, it's out there and now the Android connection has been confirmed for anyone who may still have had doubts. During a Google+ Hangout highlighting Android developers, a Google employee using a Galaxy Nexus inadvertently showed off the "Share to drive" option on his device as you can just barely see in the screen cap above...

Samsung S-Cloud rumored to be unveiled alongside new flagship phone

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 20 Apr 2012 9:46 am
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With the May 3 Samsung Mobile Unpacked event less than two weeks away, we're starting to hear more about what the manufacturer may be unveiling alongside its next flagship. The latest rumor to hit is that Samsung is planning to launch its own cloud storage service, dubbed "S-Cloud" in tandem with the Galaxy S III in London on May 3. According to Korean news site MK.co.kr, the "S-Cloud" service...

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