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The Dropbox app for Android is coming in the "next couple months"

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Finally, I'll be able to sync my school stuff and other documents to my phone and read it whenever I need to.
 
I love the fact you can access dropbox from any computer with internet. I used to have to email myself papers, or use a USB drive to print out papers in the computer lab at my college, but not anymore. there's so many uses for dropbox
 
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Could someone explain exactly what this is/does?
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It basically gives you the ability to store files on the internet in your account. You get a Dropbox folder on your computer that you can put files into and it will upload them to your dropbox account. You can also choose to put them in the "Shared/Public" folder which allows you to send the files to other people. The non-public files can be accessed from any computer/device that has internet.

Personally, I use it for school. My school folder is synced with Dropbox so when I go to the computer lab to print something out it's already there, so I don't need to use a thumb drive or anything. It makes things simpler.
 
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Good description by raconteur. I have four computers, and, though I have a file server at home so 2 of them can share files that way, the other two are remote. If I'm at home, I can simply drop files I might need into the DropBox folder, then, when I get to work, I can simply retrieve them.
It's also a great way to do simple backups.

I can't wait to have it on my phone :) :)

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Also, presumably you could upload video or photos from your phone to the dropbox and make it way easier to get them onto the computer.
 
DevinB said:
I could see the usefulness between computers, but how would having this on a phone be beneficial?
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you're in a hurry to leave to catch a bus/train/whatever and have a text document/audio file/video file/whatever you wanna check out on the bus/train/whatever
drop the file to dropbox on the comp and leave - the phone downloads the file while you're walking to the bus/train/whatever

or, you take a picture with your phone when out and about - just save it in your dropbox dir and it'll be on your computer waiting and/or shared to your friends to grab from the internet
 
mrqs said:
you're in a hurry to leave to catch a bus/train/whatever and have a text document/audio file/video file/whatever you wanna check out on the bus/train/whatever
drop the file to dropbox on the comp and leave - the phone downloads the file while you're walking to the bus/train/whatever

or, you take a picture with your phone when out and about - just save it in your dropbox dir and it'll be on your computer waiting and/or shared to your friends to grab from the internet
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yep... or, you want to transfer music to your phone, just drop it in the dropbox on the computer and it's accessible from the phone.

The phone is no longer a phone :)

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Hi

I just installed Dropbox on my Hero.
Somehow the app can't connect to the server. says that I don't have an internet connection, the mobile website is working tho.. :S

anyone seen this?
 
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