iPhones  are the in-thing to today’s GenX . They come with a large storage memory even without a memory card to say the internal cache memory in the phone itself is quite substantial to be used to store data as it is stored in a portable hard drive. With the tips given below you can make your smartphone as a portable hard drive which is very much handy and even with you wherever you go, so that your valuable data like photos, music and your e-books are always with you whenever you are on the move. One more advantage is that you need not carry the conventional portable hard drive with you anymore.

Connecting your iPhone to a PC or Laptop: If you have bought a new iphone, with the accessories supplied to you, you must have been provided by a USB data cable. Or even you must have bought a pre-owned phone and must not have been provided with a cable by the previous owner do not panic, it is easily available with your local cellphone store and is not very expensive too. After you connect one end to the PC or laptop and the other end to the device, the OS of your PC will automatically detect the device and communicating between the phone is easily established. It is better if itunes is installed in your PC or Mac. This will be the same for any iPhone model be it iphone 3G, iphone 3GS, iphone 4, iphone 4S, iphone 5, iphone 5s or iphone 5c. You can transfer all data and files as per your need to your smartphone from the PC. Remember it is not very difficult to do this and once you are acquainted with the procedure it all becomes a child’s play.

You may now carry your smartphone anywhere but just remember to also keep the USB cable along with you so that you are not inconvenienced when need be. It does not take a lot of space and it just lies in a corner of your pouch.