Can IPhone be set to a disc mode?

Is there any way to just move some media off the iPhone (as if it were an external disc)?
More frequently I am away from my desktop (my laptop isn't big enough to hold ALL my data) and my experience is if I sync it with the partial media on my laptop that it wipes out the rest of the stuff on iPhone (movies from iTunes, etc.)
I have learned the authorize and deauthorize but I have wound up losing media close to every time I've used it.
thanks in advance for any references or suggestions

No. This is not a feature of iphone.
Iphone will sync itunes content and pics with one computer.

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