PhoneTalk

I bet you've heard of the "cloud," but might not know how it affects you. The cloud is not necessarily new, but it's getting more and more popular. So how does it work? Think of it as a place to store all your data (music, photo, documents, etc) and being able to get to it from just about anywhere whether you have your computer with you or not. Thinking about it that way, wouldn't it be nice to be able to access your music or photos on your cell phone without having to take up a lot of your phone's precious storage space?

If that sounds good to you, then check out SugarSync. The company announced SugarSync for the BlackBerry and essentially what it does is let you store songs and even playlists to the SugarSync cloud and then stream that music to your BlackBerry. When you want to hear a song, just stream it from your cloud storage and listen to it on your BlackBerry. Of course, this applies to DRM-free music files. So if it's music you bought a while ago at an online store it might not work for you. The app is free to download from the BlackBerry App World and you get 2GBs of space to store music. You can store at least 50 or so songs on that much space. If you have a more robust music library then sign up for the 30GB a month plan that costs $4.99 a month.

So what's the catch? Well data is the catch meaning you'll need an unlimited data plan. However, if your BlackBerry supports WiFi and you're near a WiFi connection you can also stream music that way as well.

Topics: Phone Smarts Music Cell phone plans BlackBerry Smart phones WiFi