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Nexus 7 – Best apps for your new tablet

How to work around the limited storage and lack of 3G on Google's budget tablet

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4. Spotify

Even most people who have a device with mobile broadband don’t allow music service Spotify to stream content to them unless they have a Wi-Fi connection at the time, simply because of the vast amount of bandwidth required by high-quality audio streams. Using Spotify’s offline mode, you can download your playlists for future listening. You only need to connect to the actual service once every 30 days to keep them working. You’ll need to subscribe to Spotify Premium to use the service on a mobile device, but if you’re a music fan it’s well worth the money.

Spotify
Spotify’s helpful Android app prompts you to download your favourite playlists for listening anywhere

3. Google Drive

Google Drive lets you make anything of the documents you’ve put in Google’s cloud storage or created in Google Docs available offline. It can open any Google Docs you have files itself, but you’ll need a relevant file viewer for other file types you’ve uploaded, such as DOC or RTF files.

Google Drive
Configure the documents you need for offline access by ticking a box

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