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No MicroSD Card in Your Smartphone? Not a Problem

July 21, 2015

It is a common trend for manufacturers to not allow memory expansion for Smartphones. Apple has never allowed memory expansion via microSD cards. It would rather have you pay an obscene amount of money to get the higher capacity iPhones. The smartphone version of crack cocaine. Following Apple’s lead, Samsung dropped the microSD expansion capability on the S6. So what do you do if you purchased a phone that doesn’t quite have enough storage capacity for all of your music, pictures and apps? Not a problem.

SanDisk has a solution for you. It’s an ingenious flash memory stick that has built-in WiFi and a battery that can sustain a single stream of data for 4.5 hours. It works like a regular flash drive with a computer by plugging it into a USB port and with smartphones via an app. The SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick comes in sizes from 16GB all the way to 128GB of storage. The cost runs from $29.99 up to $99.99 for the 128GB version. It’s a clever device, but I don’t want to carry around another piece of equipment that is dependent on my phone to operate properly.

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