The demand for smartphones is accelerating as average consumers are looking to quickly connect to people anywhere and anytime. However, these powerful devices don’t always come cheap. The iPhone 4S, for one, easily costs $649 right off the shelf while the Samsung Galaxy SII for $599. That is why I would like to introduce to you two great budget-friendly alternatives that can still provide an enjoyable experience to camera capture, web browsing, emailing, connecting on social media and playing games. Yet, these two devices are half the price of the two popular smartphones. Despite the low price, these are not dumb-downed smartphones with really laggy user interfaces like some of the other phones in the same price range. These two devices might just change your mind.
Samsung has partnered up with Dropbox to offer some extra storage for Galaxy S III owners. Upon registering your device, your Dropbox storage will be expanded to 50GB. Sounds too good to be true, right? It’s only valid for 2 years and it’s still unknown whether or not there’s going to be any discounts after. Still, it’s a good deal for 2 years.
After Microsoft released its SkyDrive app and gave everyone 7GB of free storage (25GB for old users) to compete with Dropbox, Google also unveiled its service today, labelled Google Drive. This is the rumored cloud storage that Google has been preparing for a while, and users can now attempt to upgrade (attempt because Google is slowly rolling it to users worldwide). What’s different from Dropbox is that Google Drive is tightly integrated with Google Docs, allowing documents to be edited online, like Microsoft’s Skydrive.
