Toshiba Gulf FZE, Storage Products & Solutions has announced it is now shipping the ‘CANVIO for Smartphone’, an innovative portable storage device for backing up and charging^[1] Android™^[2] phones^[3] in a single operation.

For PC users, the CANVIO for Smartphone can still be used as a conventional external hard drive, backing up data via USB Type-A and USB Type-C™^[6] interfaces. It can be shared with several devices, enabling multiple users to benefit from data backup and data sharing.

The CANVIO for Smartphone features a sleek, stylish, circular white casing and has a storage capacity of 500 GB [7]. The device is supplied with an AC adapter, a USB 2.0 Micro-B cable, a USB 2.0 Type-C cable and a USB Micro-B – Type-A adapter.