Samsung to launch Galaxy Note 5 in August to pre-empt iPhone 6S

[mikerr]

With no SD card, I wonder if I could survive with just a USB OTG cable (or OTG flash drive) for larger on-phone storage...? Probably not.

[crossy]

With no SD card, I wonder if I could survive with just a USB OTG cable (or OTG flash drive) for larger on-phone storage...? Probably not.

Good thing about these drives is that they're cheap enough to give a whirl. I've got a couple of the Sandisk versions (all 64GB) and they're pretty handy for "tertiary storage" - in my case for videos that I'd maybe want to watch when away from home, but don't want cluttering up my SD card.

Device support is a bit patchy, but if you've got a modern device then you should be good to go, especially if that device isn't running Kitkat.

Downside (v's SD) are obvious: they look clunky, put more wear on your device's USB port; mean you can't charge while using them (which is a major problem if you're using for video storage) and different apps present them differently. I also think (no hard data) that the content access on the OTG is slower than on the SD.

Upsides are that they make file exchange laughably easy, so I'm thinking that they'd be obvious choices if you wanted to back up photos "off-phone". Transcend even make a special app Transcend Elite designed to make backups etc to their OTG drives easier.