Load photos from your Smartphone to the PC

Anyone who has a Smartphone with a Micro-SD Slot, which can make it particularly easy to:

• Turn off your phone and remove the Micro-SD card.
• Insert this in the (usually supplied) SD Adapter.
• This, in turn, readers of your PC in the map - via Autoplay, you will be taken to the respective folder that contains your images. This is usually called "DCIM".

Android Smartphones can also connect via data cable to the USB Port of your Computer.

1. On the Android Smartphone, a Pop-Up menu, select the Option "drive"/"hard drive" (wording varies by manufacturer).
2. Shortly thereafter, the folder with all contained files will appear on the PC via the Autoplay again. You're looking the "DCIM" folder, and you can have fun with simple Copy&Paste.

Anyone who owns an older Samsung phone that often has no direct access via the Explorer. Here a small detour through Samsung's Software "Kies" here:

1. Launch the Kies Software.
2. Connect your Smartphone via USB.
3. After a short loading phase on the left in the gravel appears to be a sub - menu, select the item "photos".
4. Select the desired images with the left mouse button, a right click opens a Pop-Up menu. Here you can choose to save the photos on the PC.
5. To find the files not only in Software but also in the Explorer, you need to the installation directory of the gravel. This is usually under "C:" > "programs" > "Samsung Kies", but can of course vary depending on your installation settings.

By the way: Apple now has a very nice solution for Copying photos created - you are an exception, not on the Software "iTunes" to depend on.

1. Connect your iPhone via USB to the Computer.
2. Open Explorer, under "Portable devices" or "Computer" you will find your phone and select it.
3. In the appearing sub-menu there is only one folder - the first level is "DCIM". Click here and you will be directed to your collection of images.
4. Here you can copy as usual, selected files, or the same cut, and on your external hard drive.

Save your photos to a new phone switch, help you our mobile phone-best list in the selection. Here you will find detailed Tests to the current Top Smartphones, the purchase recommendations and the current price-to-performance winner. It starts already below 100 Euro.