Keeping it safe.
Cloud services are
great ways of backing up all that important content from your phone
or tablet. But... as it is cloud based, you can't access it whenever
you're away from an internet signal, and not all of us are
comfortable with putting sensitive images and information
“somewhere”. So, if you find that your phone is getting crammed
with files, and you're no fan of the cloud, what do you do? Easy, you
get a Picture Keeper Connect.
The Picture Keeper
Connect is a small flash drive-sized device that has a USB connector
on one side, and an Apple Lightning connector on the other. As you
might have guessed this is a product that is definitely geared more
toward iPhones and iPads, but thanks to the inclusion of a Micro USB
adaptor wire, it can also be used with most Android phones, too.
Phew.
To use the Picture
Keeper Connect first you need to download the app onto the device
from which you want to copy files. With the app running you then
simply plug in the Picture Keeper to your phone and hit backup. It
will find and copy over photos, videos, and also contacts, which is
handy in case you ever lose your handset.
You can then either
keep the drive safe until you next want to back up your phone, or
copy over all the saved files to your computer or an external hard
drive. The great thing about future back ups is that the Picture
Keeper Connect knows what pictures and videos are new, so will only
copy over those, saving you space and annoying multiple back-up
files.
The speed of the back
up is pretty quick, and the fact that it accesses the correct file
folders on your phone immediately is a God-send. Plugging in your
device into your computer every time you want to back up the content
would take a lot more time and is nowhere near as convenient at this
thing. Plus, you can use the Picture Keeper Connect anywhere to give
you both peace of mind and extra space when out and about away from
your Mac or PC.
It comes in 16, 32, and
64GB capacities, with us having received one of the 16GB models. That
was fine, but if you're buying one to back up a phone you've been
using for a long time, and so have a lot of images and videos to
save, we'd recommend getting one of the larger versions. If you're
snap-happy, and if your phone has a large storage capacity anyway, go
big or go home.
On that note, it isn't
cheap. The 16GB model is currently £99 on Amazon, with the 64GB
version going as high as £169.99. That is a lot for something that
merely backs up things physically, so it might put many people off.
However, if you have the cash to splash and can't be bothered with
flipping through file folders to manually copy over items to a
another drive, this could be a winner. And hey, if you film vlogs and
other precious content on your phone (as an increasing number of
people do), being able to instantly back it up and save it all is
priceless.
£99 (16GB), £134.99
(32GB), & £169.99 (64GB).
Available from
www.amazon.co.uk
