Many are saying that it’s long overdue. And they’re right, it is. Given the fact that Apple have marketed their iPhone as the best smart phone on the market and next down the ladder to a netbook, you’d think they would have allowed users to transfer data without having to hook it up to their PC.
I enjoy the odd bit of photography, and it was a pain having to connect my iPod and start up iTunes just to transfer a handful of pictures. Now, Apple have given permission for third-party storage related hardware. The first out of the blocks is ZoomMediaPLUS with their ZoomIt with their SC card reader which plugs into the bottom of the device, and works in conjunction with their app. The app allows you to transfer data to and from the SD card juts as though it was connected to your PC.
I think that this recent development by Apple, to allow external memory solutions, is due to the impending launch of the iPad and the criticism for not being enough of a computer. Perhaps the ZoomIt DS reader will work on that too. The only downside to this new piece of hardware is the price tag: $60. A bit expensive for an SD reader. Also, it won’t be shipping for a few months. But during that time, if you pre-order, you can get a $10 discount.
It’s been getting a lot of guff lately. And for what? Because it isn’t a high performance windows vista or XP netbook from one of the top dogs? Because it doesn’t look so great?
This is one ting which bugs me about the tech review scene, they tend to bunch all items into the one category. This isn’t like other netbooks. It’s a budget machine for those who need a quick little gadget that’ll do the job for 2010. Nothing more.
They based the OS on Android, the popular mobile device OS. As you can see from the picture, it’s nothing too flashy and it isn’t too powerful either. But then, all you’re going to be using it for is doing Emails, some light web surfing and maybe using the word processor. It’s not for playing video games or creating home movies for god’s sake.
They’re rugged little machines that’ll suit many individuals. This could easily act as a spare PC for households to cope when people all want to use the family PC at once. Or it could accompany you to work on the train. Or it could be a field laptop for photographers, surveyors etc…. And because of that cool $149 price tag, it doesn’t matter if it gets broken.
At the end of the day, there’s a market for cheap yet reliable machines that’ll do a basic job. So maybe the Hivision netbook is worth a go.
How many of you have thumb drives lying around with little use for them? Perhaps you’ve got several external drives that you have to keep plugging in and unplugging when you are not using them. This frustrating experience cycles because there’s never been a suitable solution for all this.
If you’ve not checked out PogoPlug, then this little device could be a life saver for all of you. PogoPlug is a device that allows you to plug all of your USB devices to it and via a portal, you have access to all of your data from any computer/laptop in the world.
Before you throw them away, take a look at PogoPlug and keep all your data accessible. The PogoPlug comes in at a reasonable $99 offering easy setup, easy sharing, and the kicker…iPhone access for those needed to access their PogoPlug on the go.
