Since Samsung launched its Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge
flagships, users have bemoaned the company's decision to
remove advance features like a memory card slot,
removable battery and waterproofing.
In addition to the three features above that did not make the
cut in the transition from last year's Galaxy S5 to this year's
Galaxy S6, Samsung also dropped support for USB on-the-
go (USB OTG) and MHL. The former feature allows business
users to access USB flash drives and connect peripherals
like keyboards and mice to their phones for enhanced
productivity on the go, while the latter allows the phone to
connect to an external display or projector.
Even though these features may be gone on the Galaxy S6,
you can still regain expandable storage, add battery power,
take the Galaxy S6 for a swim, project your display and
expand your productivity with these simple solutions:
1. Reclaim your storage
Just because Samsung ditched the microSD card on the
Galaxy S6, you don't need to buy the costly edition with
128GB of storage built-in.
A convenient way to access, store and save files is the
cloud. With cloud solutions - such as Google Drive,
Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox and Box - users will always
have access to their documents, photos and videos
wherever they have access to the internet. If you like to
document your workflow through photos, most of these
services include automatic photo backup over Wi-Fi or
3G/4G.
For local storage solutions, wireless drives are a great
option. You won't have to worry about the cloud being
hacked, and even in the basement of your office building
where no wireless signal can penetrate, you'll still be able to
access your most important documents or treasured
photos.
Essentially, a wireless drive creates an ad-hoc wireless
network and transforms itself to a battery-powered, portable
media streamer.
Examples of wireless drive include 32GB SanDisk Connect
Wireless Media Drive ($80, £65, AU$103), the 16GB SanDisk
Connect Wireless Flash Drive ($50, £40, AU$65), the 500GB
Seagate Wireless Mobile Storage ($100, £67, AU$128) and
the 2TB Western Digital Wireless MyPassport Drive ($200,
£133, AU$257).
With the SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive, you even
expand the built-in memory of the drive with an SD card.
For high capacity, you can even use SanDisk's 200GB
capacity microSD card, with adapter, to the media drive.
That's more than six times the capacity of the 32GB Galaxy
S6 on the memory card alone.
Best of all, you can add and swap multiple memory cards to
grow your storage needs on a wireless media drive.
Using a wireless drive means you'll have to charge the
battery on your Galaxy S6 or S6 Edge every night, and also
the battery on your media streaming device. For the added
effort, however, if you carry multiple devices, you'll be able
to simultaneously share and access the contents on the
wireless drive with a phone, tablet and laptop.
Road warriors can meet in a hotel conference room and
they will all be able to access the files on the drive. Many of
these drives can stream content to a maximum of ten
devices simultaneously. This means I can listen to stored
music, my colleagues can watch a video file, while an editor
at TechRadar can view photos and other documents on the
drive at the same time.
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