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Well, this is a real 'gadget-man' USB stick - I'm not entirely clear on what I wanted this for, other than I got it quite cheap, so even as JUST a 32GB USB stick it was good value. First off, I wanted it to extend storage on my daughter's iPhone - the idea was to move some data off onto the stick. It has proved pretty successful though, at wirelessly moving data from a PC to various phones for a variety of reasons. I experimented with streaming a movie from the stick to my phone, and it did that really well over some considerable distance. It turns off after some inactivity, so you couldn't realistically use it as some sort of mini-NAS, there is the option of having a password, I opted to turn this off as there is nothing sensitive stored on it, and you have to have the app to access it anyway, so it's not like everyone can just log into it (unless they are close to you and have the same app). I think these were being sold off fairly cheap when I bought mine, and 32GB represented good value, but if you can get a 64GB version, so much the better. Note that you 'log' into it on your device by treating it as if it is a Wi-Fi network, so initially you are disconnected from the internet - there ARE ways to subsequently get your USB stick to log into your normal Wi-Fi so that you also get internet access. This process seems a bit hit & miss, but maybe with practice, you would find a sequence that would work for you (I think it's different for Apple/Android devices). Overall, because I got it relatively cheaply, I think I basically have a 32GB stick with really useful 'extras'. It's main use in our house has been easily moving files onto an Apple device from a Windows PC. (plug in to PC, transfer files to USB stick - remove USB stick, switch on wi-fi accessibility, log in with iPhone and transfer files to iPhone..). The battery seems to last for ages, simply recharge whilst plugged into your PC - you can't access it's wi-fi when it is plugged in.Read full review
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Neat concept and works as its designed to do - a WiFi enabled, battery operated small storage device. Reasonably straightforward to setup as an ad-hoc WiFi device to connect clients directly to it, or connect to your WiFi router and have clients connect across your home network. The disk access speed is a bit on the slow side. I purchased this to use as a small, cheap, lower power solution to store my music for playback via my Sonos system as they are discontinuing the play "On this iPhone" feature. However, whilst I could map a Windows drive directly to it as I found out it won't work as a music server for Sonos because it doesn't support samba/cifs access :-( So I have a nice little dongle looking for a new use!
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Nice design, subtle LED light. I like that. What I don't like (like is a gross understatement here) is the fact that one cannot use it's wireless capabilities when the USB side is plugged in. I mean why?! And I don't need to read any bs excuse about data corruption protection. I'm amazed how my data's protection is everybody else's problem these days. I purchased 2 of these devices for one purpose: Plug this usb in my TV and play the pictures in a slideshow. As I take more pictures with my phone, I was looking for a more convenient way of transferring the new pics to to the USB stick, than to keep re-plugin the USB in my PC and then transfer the photos over from my phone to the PC then to the USB and then re plug the USB in the TV. So y'all can imagine my frustration when I found out that you must unplug the damn thing just to access it via WIFI. This is like the biggest wasted opportunity since the Wireless SD cards that were for some reason made obsolete by the manufacturers. The ONLY REASON this is not a 1 star review is because it is a decent 16GB USB stick for £10. But my god talk about wasteful and pedantic. Just WHY?! And again, I don't care about the whole idea of "putting my media on it so I can stream it later". Phones have 128GB of memory these days. A 16GB stick is NOT going to do anything for your "media streaming". Just wasteful.Read full review
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Wish I had gotten one with more storage. But it's still the best USB storage I have bought in a long time
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Work as usb memory stick - ok. Work as wifi disk - ok. Attach to home wifi network - ok. But work as USB stick and wifi disk simultaenously - not.
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