I love this cable. I’ve recently moved from 6s to 7 and now the new app update is superb. I can see all that I save, unlike the cloud.

Only this week the cloud notified me of my annual charge being imminent – I don’t even know what I’ve got saved there and when I did once try to restore my iPad it took over 3 months and some of the documents never restored!

I’ve seen bad reviews on Meem but my experience has been brilliant, sometimes I wonder why people are so negative.

Meem is exactly what I needed, easy to use and backs up every time I charge. I have over 1000 photos on my phone and this product is invaluable because I’d be devastated if I lost them, a great innovation for one price when everyone else wants to charge you annually.

Kudos to the guys at Meem, superb product, thanks so much!

Bought first smart phone. Almost computer illiterate, paranoid about “losing” material and assumed ‘the cloud’ was a weather forecast! Saw MEEM, read it was easy to install and thought a plug in back up was just for me with added benefit of it all happening while charging. Download of app easy. install easy. First charge not a lot seemed to happen. Read and followed instructions again carefully with same result. Contacted MEEM. Extremely helpful, prompt and comprehensive, yet simple to understand advice led to an understanding that not a lot was happening because there is not a lot on my phone to back up! Time will tell but it is very comforting to know that problems will be met with a sympathetic response, something that cannot be said for all suppliers!

I recently brought the Meem cable for my iphone, but being an old fart was a little confused in
Its application, I contacted Meem via their website and had the most useful feedback you could get.
Having now understood how simple it is to use, I would highly recommend this device to anyone
Concerned about losing or having their phone stolen.

does what it says. plug it in, and it backs up. best thing about it is i don;t have to buy any cloud storage from apple.

Excellent method for backing up an iPhone / the only piece of hardware that captures all the relevant files. Very straightforward to use.

Excellent

If there is one thing that I don’t like it’s being unprepared. I always try to have a ‘plan B’ in my back pocket because you just never know. Since I have found myself with a dead battery on my phone more than once, I always have a spare battery pack in my bag. One thing I don’t have a good backup for emergency storage for my phone. This is something I’m sure most people don’t carry with them because it ends up being one more thing to tote around. Fortunately, there is the MEEM cable, which kills two birds with one stone.

MEEM is a mobile phone charger and backup device all in one. You can use this every time you charge your phone so that you always have a back-up of your most essential information. MEEM backs up contacts, calendar data, photos, and videos from your phone. It’s simple and you can use the data to restore your phone. It’s a rather wonderful option for a 2-in-1 solution to help you always be prepared.

The first step you have to complete before even starting to us the cable is to download the app. Now the instructions and website of MEEM will tell you that the app will download automatically when you plug in the cable. This did not happen for me. I had to manually download the app from the iTunes App Store (MEEM Mirror). It’s free and only takes a couple minutes to download, but I just wanted to be clear that the download did not happen automatically for me.

Once the app is downloaded and opened, you have to go through the standard user agreements and preferences before you really get to us it. You are instructed to select a security code. Once that has been entered, the MEEM cable syncs your photos, contacts, calendar, and videos and stores it on the built-in flash drive. There are two versions of the cable – Android or iOS – and each version has a different sized drive – 16GB or 32GB respectively. MEEM states that the average iPhone user has a bit over 7GB of ‘meemable’ data. At the time of testing, I had actually just backed up my photo library so I only had a little over 200MB of storage for MEEM.

So, then the question is, what do I do once my data is backed up? Well, you really just store it on MEEM. If you need to restore a backup to your phone, it’s as easy as dragging the data block back to the phone using the app. As best as I can tell, you cannot access individual files or open the backups on your computer. It’s strictly an iOS or Android mobile operations.

I do like the simple storage option that MEEM offers. It’s really very easy to use and quite durable. I like that you can just wrap up the cable and on a whim, plug your phone in (perhaps into a battery pack) and backup your most important data. I did notice that the thickest part of the cable, where I assume that the storage drive is housed, does get warm. I’m very happy with how quickly MEEM transferred data and how easy it was to move file backups around. It’s a simple, but elegant solution to portable file storage for phones. I think it’s a great option for emergency charging and file backups.

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The MEEM cable is amazing and simple to use. I love the product. […] I would like to purchase some more MEEM cables when the price is corrected. Thank you, Bryan

Ok, never written a review for a product before but felt impelled to do so for this amazing little device. I work as a stage hand at a major film studio and saw the MEEM being used by lots of the actors, I asked them what the deal was with it and they told me that they just felt safer having control over their back-ups rather than trusting them to the cloud where they could get hacked. It made sense but it’s more than that. It’s so simple and intuitive and knowing I have physically backed up my important information and that it’s in my bag not a cloud somewhere, is priceless. It’s cheap for the peace of mind it gives you. Don’t hesitate, get one!

Fantastic piece of kit – simple to use and a potential life saver if i lose/break my phone. Fact of life that we all need to charge our phones daily (for your average phone user) so backup will only ever be 1 day or so old at the most.
Now have both iOS and Android versions (yes, we’re a family divided…..iOS and Android users!!) – both work exactly the same.

Yes, for iOS you have WIFI to iTunes and iCloud backup and the rest but there is many situations where i wouldn’t have my laptop and/or WIFI signal…..but I’ll always have my charging cable (MEEM).

Well done MEEM on producing a “essential” product. Now if only the price would reduce i would buy a 2nd one to use “on the road”.
No idea why there is such a price difference between the Android version and the iOS version?? Can only assume there was some licensing payment that had to be made to Apple??

Great way to back-up my phone on a regular basis. Very easy to use! Also, don’t worry about the memory of this product vs. the memory on your phone – I have a 64GB iPhone loaded with photos and addresses and not even close to running out of memory.