My pixel phone has meager storage. Could I use an old phone with bountiful SD space to serve up media via Bluetooth?
Any ideas if this would work practically speaking?
Get a NAS for home, and VPN in as needed. Store all your media on the NAS, and also use it as a phone backup target.
Downside might be that this requires a good internet connection, which depending on where OP travels might not always be available.
This. Tailscale is a VPN solution for this that’s free for personal use.
Bluetooth is probably too slow for what you want, but you could use your old phone as a Wifi hotspot and even install various server software on it via Termux.
If you’re looking for something you can carry about and use to store data on, why not just a USB-C thumb drive or external SSD?
Edit; this is intended for photographers, but you can get external SSDs that create their own WiFi network so you can transfer files wiressly to and from them: https://www.westerndigital.com/en-gb/products/portable-drives/wd-my-passport-wireless-ssd?sku=WDBAMJ2500AGY-EESN
GL.iNet’s travel routers have a USB port and support plugging in a EHDD to share over the network they create.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters NAS Network-Attached Storage SSD Solid State Drive mass storage VPN Virtual Private Network
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.
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