The Dropbox iPhone App has been updated to support automatic photo uploads and gallery view. After upgrading to new version, the app will prompt user for permission to automatically upload phone's camera roll (images and movies) to their Dropbox account.

To promote usage of this feature, users are also offered an reward of up to 3GB of bonus capacity in 500MB increments when data gets uploaded using the new feature.

Sadly, BeeCloud - the only cloud backup solution offering a whooping 500+ GB free online storage went out of the business recently. However, not exactly a cloud backup service provider a new service "JumboFiles" do offer their free account users a generous 500 GB of online file storage space.

The service is more like a online file-locker like Hotfile, Megaupload and Rapidshare and offers users free 500GB account to store files with 1GB size-limit per file, with support for resumeable downloads and download accelerators.

We have blogged about freemium cloud storage solutions like Dropbox, SugarSync, ZumoDrive, DropBoks, Microsoft SkyDrive and LiveDrive but all of them offer a limited amount of "online data storage" after which a user needs to upgrade their accounts to store more data.

BeeCloud is another such solution but offers a whooping 512GB of online storage with their free account, basically a reseller for LiveDrive they offer fully automatic backups with upto 30 revisions, anywhere data access from the web, iPhone, iPad, smart phone, PC, or Mac and even supports music and videos streaming straight from your mobile device over 3G or wifi.

There exist quite a few well-known free online storage service providers and we have reviewed them earlier on the blog, DropBoks is a similar free secure online storage service but much simpler to use, DropBoks allows users to create personal account and store upto 1 GB of data, allowing upload/download of files upto 50 MB in size, the simple interface is very user friendly and allows uploading multiple files at once.

After FolderShare from Microsoft, Dropbox is another similar service, but with much better interface and ease of use, currently under closed private beta the service allows users to synchronize files between multiple computers both Mac and PC.

DropBox makes file-sharing and syncing as simple as it can get, The client integrates with the files system and you just need to drop your files inside the special dropbox folder and rest is taken care in background by the Dropbox client. As a file inside the special dropbox folder gets changed, automatic file syncing takes place and online version of the file is updated.

All files inside your Dropbox can be accessed and shared anytime using the online interface, even when your computer is powered down, the best thing about the service is its ability to retain older versions of the file as a backup copy, incase the file gets deleted by mistake from the Dropbox folder.