D'loading apps & video via laptop to phone?

The_stingemeister

Thinking of joining the 21st century and purchasing my first smartphone. So although I'm fairly computer savvy my phone knowledge is very small. I have no phone signal where I live, therefore I wanted to know if its straightforward enough to download to laptop and then to the phone?

And if its feasible, then how?

The_stingemeister

Anyone?

Would be a good way of saving on your data allowance on the phone, as well?

Humphrey10

If you're going to do this when at home, why not just use wifi?

Forwandert

Just connect to you wifi as said and download everything straight to your phone. If you do want to go via your laptop with videos etc it would depend on the smartphone operating system how easy it would be. Android it would just be a case of dragging and dropping whatever you wanted onto your phone when connected. Other OS it would depend on how they transfer items across.

buscape

The_stingemeister wrote: »

Thinking of joining the 21st century and purchasing my first smartphone. So although I'm fairly computer savvy my phone knowledge is very small. I have no phone signal where I live, therefore I wanted to know if its straightforward enough to download to laptop and then to the phone?

And if its feasible, then how?

It is feasible but it depends on the OS the phone is running. Which phone are you looking at buying?

Im_just_careful

Android is good at this, iOS (Apple) less so.

For android, the free app "ES file explorer" is my favorite for this.

You can navigate to shares on your computer or NAS with this, then copy and paste files to the SD card on the phone. Fantastic.

I've not found a free iOS app anything like as good and ended up spending a few pounds on "File Browser". This is good but limited by what iOS lets it do.

The_stingemeister

Humphrey10 wrote: »

If you're going to do this when at home, why not just use wifi?

Doh, didn't think of that..Thanks.

The_stingemeister

buscape wrote: »

It is feasible but it depends on the OS the phone is running. Which phone are you looking at buying?

An Android based phone, I think. Price: between &100-£200.