Get More From Your Camera Phone

It seems that in recent times, it’s no longer the case that the main use of a mobile phone is to make phone calls. The cost of manufacturing miniature components has fallen dramatically, allowing us access to a host of multimedia applications on the latest mobile phones. We can now take pictures, listen to music, watch and make videos clips, access the Internet, make notes and even make phone calls on our mobile phones!

Not so long ago, people commuting to work may have taken with them a mobile phone, maybe a personal organiser and some form of music player to help alleviate the boredom of the journey. Some people in certain occupations like Estate Agents may have even taken a compact digital camera for snaps. Now people can just take their latest camera mobile phone with them, which provides them with access to movies, games, music, online shops, photos, voice recordings and so much more besides. The amalgamation of these gadgets and features into one compact, affordable device is really an amazing feat of engineering technology.
Great though it is to have access to these fun features, a lot of space (or memory) is required to be able to store all the information. Most mobile phones off the shelf come with a certain amount of built-in memory (or internal memory), the amount of which varies from phone to phone, but generally speaking built-in memory is kept to a minimum. This is because manufacturers realised the build cost of mobile phones could be massively reduced by building just enough memory into each phone so that it is usable, i.e. there is just enough internal memory in a phone so that it may function as a phone, plus allowing for a few music tracks and photos to be stored. So if you want to get a bit more out of your mobile it’s essential to substantially increase its memory.

Increasing the memory is easy, all it involves is buying a suitable memory card and inserting it in the slot somewhere on your camera phone, it really is that simple. Memory cards are available in various capacity which are measured in Mb i.e. 128Mb, 256Mb, 512mb etc, the bigger the Mb capacity, the more pictures you can store. Recently memory cards have moved up to even bigger sizes to cope with the memory requirements of many multimedia devices, measured in Gb i.e. 1Gb, 2Gb etc, 1Gb equals 1000Mb so now you can work that out!

The exact amount of data you can store on a certain size memory card is difficult to work out because of the various formats of data being stored for music, images, data etc. Generally speaking photos, video clips and MP3 music files use up large amount of memory space, e.g. an average pop song on MP3 will use approx 4-5Mb of memory and video will use much more.

There are several types of memory cards available for mobile phones and only the correct type will work properly on your phone. In most cases, there is also a restriction on the maximum size of memory card you can use on your mobile phone, a bigger capacity card than recommended by the manufacturer may not work at all or even if it works, may cause loss of data or damage to your phone in due course and invalidate any warranty. Our advice would be to use more than one card as required, e.g. you may use a memory card for one type of music and another card for a different type of music, in the same way as you would use CD’s or tapes.

The best way to find out which memory card your mobile phone takes is to check the owners manual. If you are in any doubt with which card you need to order, you can call us on 0845 257 2088 (9am–5pm Mon–Fri) with the make and model of your mobile phone and we will do our best to assist you. Mouse2House.co.uk is one of the biggest memory card specialists in the UK offering unbelievably low prices on top brand memory cards.


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Mouse2House.co.uk is a UK company specialising in memory cards, printer cartridges and usb storage. For more information visit http://www.mouse2house.co.uk.