Dropbox, the number one name in mobile cloud storage, and an increasingly necessary desktop tool, has begun offering an experimental beta v.2.0.9 to the public for testing. The beta comes with a feature similar to Google +, which they call Automatic Camera Upload. While this kind of feature is available in some 3rd party Dropbox apps already, it's good to see that the official version has taken note and added it in. There are also some other new features of the latest Dropbox.

The app can now auto-upload videos, as well as photos, from your camera in the background over wifi or data connections. Size limits on uploads have been eliminated, so you'll be able to upload larger files without compression now. Uploads that are interrupted due to network downtime will now be resumed when the connection is sound again. Performance has been enhanced, and some bugs have been fixed. Your first auto-upload will give you an additional 500MB of storage. Should you choose to enable auto-uploads, you can also toggle on a 25MB limit to play kindly with your data connection.

As for the free storage, here's how it works. Unfortunately, you don't just get a bulk 5GB of storage by signing up or downloading the app. The first time you sync your device with Dropbox, you get 500MB of storage. After that, every 500MB of photos or video uploaded will get you an additional 500MB of storage for free, up to a cap of 4.5GB, for a grand total of 5GB. However, this storage is not separate from storage earned through the desktop client beta that released yesterday. The desktop beta works the same way as described above.

If you're ready to download the new beta now, you can do so here.]]>