[3] The term "sideload" was coined in the late 1990s by online storage service i-drive as an alternative means of transferring and storing computer files virtually instead of physically.
Usage of this feature began to decline as newer hard drives became cheaper and the space on them grew each year into the gigabytes and the trademark application was abandoned.
The advent of portable MP3 players in the late 1990s brought sideloading to the masses, even if the term was not widely adopted.
[8] Until this time, mobile phone manufacturers had tended to adopt proprietary USB transfer solutions requiring the use of bundled or third party cables and software.
Once connected, the device will appear in the PC's file explorer window as either a media player or an external hard drive.
However, the popular BlackBerry mobile phones by RIM and the iPods by Apple distance themselves at higher performing speeds of roughly 15.7 MB/s and 9.6 MB/s, respectively.
Audio and video files can be written directly to the memory card and then inserted into the mobile device.