You can find quite a few cloud backup services for Android phones out there, but Funambol’s OneHub has a few extra tweaks that make organizing securing your digital content that much easier.
OneHub isn’t a new app so much as it is a rebring of a cloud service that has been around for Android iOS phones. eviously called MyFunambol, the app is sold as a white-label service to carriers device makers all over the world. Since it is open-source, manufacturers carriers can tweak its appearance features to align with their bring. The app is also available as a free download in the ay Store, that is the version this review covers.
Setting up OneHub is a cinch. After you download the app, it asks you to create a OneHub account. Then, it takes you to the OneHub app homepage, where the app will perform its initial sync with your phone’s content. ile your phone is syncing, you can sign in to your OneHub account on your ; from there, you can start syncing your multiple social media accounts to your OneHub account. For instance, you can sync your Facebook, Flickr, YouTube accounts so that you can send photos from OneHub to them. so, when you add your Facebook account, your friends’ profile photos pop up in your address book.
Syncing my contacts from Gmail was a messy process, as I got duplicate entries for multiple people. For one person, I had three entries with the same Gmail address email info for each. I’m not sure why the entry duplicated, since I don’t have duplicates for that person on my Gmail account. It is easy to delete contact entries via the OneHub website, however, so I was able to clean up my contact list pretty quickly. Still, it was an annoying extra step to take.
If you wish to sync your Outlook contacts, you must first download the Funambol ndows/Outlook sync app from the OneHub portal (you’ll see a ‘Download OneHub app for ndows’ link). After you download that app to your , your Outlook M data (contacts, calendars, tasks, the like) will sync to your cloud account. You can do the same if you have a Mac; just download the OneHub for Mac program, you’ll be able to sync your Mac Address Book with your account.
One other thing to note is that you can’t back up MMS SMS messages. Honestly, I don’t really see the need for such a feature, as I tend not to text important information, but some people might find this omission to be a weakness.
A new feature of OneHub is a “timeline view,” which lets you see your media in chronological order. Sort of like the Facebook profile timeline, the OneHub view lists your photos in order of when you took them, shows your music videos by when you first acquired them. You can either download this media to your phone or stream it over -Fi or your cellular network.
For organizing sharing photos videos, OneHub is a useful, easy-to-navigate application. In my experience, however, contacts were a little more difficult to manage. OneHub is a free service, but it gives you only 150MB of storage. You can upgrade to 5GB of storage for $35 for one year, or to 50GB of storage for $100 for one year.
