One of the most annoying things about using a computer to read data on your Android phone or tablet’s SD card is that in order to mount the card on your computer you have to unmount it from your mobile device. In other words, you can’t copy music, movies, or photos to your phone using a USB cable without temporarily losing the ability to access… Read more »

Need to clean up some storage space on your Android phone? You might want to think about moving some apps from main memory to your storage card. If you’re running Android 2.2 and up, many apps include an option that lets you move them manually to the storage card — but other apps do not. For instance, Adobe Flash Player 10.2 insists on hanging out… Read more »

Update: There’s also a way to move apps to your SD card without root access — but you’ll need to install the Android SDK on your computer first. Google Android 2.2 and up allows you to move some application data to an SD card to free up room on your phone’s main disk. But this only works if developers specifically enable the feature when coding… Read more »

Skyfire has released version 3.0.1 of its popular web browser for Google Android. As you might suspect from a point release, there aren’t a ton of huge differences between Skyfire 3.0 and Skyfire 3.0.1, but there are a few new features that should make the Skyfire experience a bit better — especially for users running Android 2.2 and up. For one thing, you can now… Read more »

Webkey is a free app that lets you control your Android phone from a web browser. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. You an also view detailed information from your call log, export your contact list as a plain text file, or use a file browser to access your SD card. The only catch? Webkey requires root access, so you’ll want to use… Read more »

First the good news: Unlike certain smartphone platforms on the market, Windows Phone 7 will allow users to store data on SD cards, not just built-in storage space. Now the bad news: You won’t easily be able to remove and replace that SD card. That’s because Microsoft says Windows Phone devices will have special SD cards that offer high performance — and which are recognized… Read more »

One of the new features in Google Android 2.2 Froyo is the ability to store applications on an SD card, freeing up space on your phone’s main memory. Developers need to enable this feature in their apps, so not every app available can be stored on an SD card, but I’ve already freed up plenty of storage space on my Nexus One by moving a… Read more »

For the last year and a half or so, Issue 1151 has been hanging out in the Android code page. What’s Issue 1151? A request to be able to install apps on a phone’s SD card instead of the built in storage. Since many Android phones have limited storage space, but can accept much larger SD cards, this would make it easy to install more… Read more »