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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Hands on with SanDisk’s iPhone storage-expanding pen drive

The iXpand is undoubtedly an odd thing to envision, a strange Frankensteinian amalgam with adapters fused together and folded over once for all measure. It’s another interesting concept outside SanDisk as the company attempts to live nimble in a community of rapidly dropping storage area costs and increasing reliability on cloud backups.

The iXpand is actually a new, slimmer take for a product released in 2014, trading inside of a boxy design for a very portable footprint that is definitely half USB dongle, one-quarter Lightning connector and the other quarter curved rubbery tiny bit.

As is pretty clear with the design, the peripheral serves for a link between an iOS device including a computer, both for driving in reverse files on an iPhone/iPad plus working as expandable storage area, so you can watch movies against your mobile device and not having to wipe the rest with its precious 16GB with built-in storage.

The former is more on the backup of a file backup. You should be driving in reverse your stuff in the cloud and on your hard disk already, but the iXpand is designed with a little added insurance, along benefit using quickly transfer large files that is going to otherwise require additional rates for cloud storage.

The latter is a more compelling case apply, as anyone with your 16GB iPhone will enjoyably bend your ear pertaining to at length. Of lessons, whether or not enable you to add on expandable memory will be worth $50 (16GB) to $130 (128GB) your pop is another concern entirely.

Either way, it’s an important class in thinking long and hard about if or not to pay for an internal storage bump for a person's device during checkout, normally be doomed to trust in dongles for the near future.

SanDisk has revamped the app for any latest iXpand, and an entire process is pretty a great deal plug and play (well, outlet, download the app and after that play). It’ll back right up photos, videos, music and various files, organizing then into neat little folders that is accessed when plugged within an iOS device and also computer.

The app can certainly be set to perform automatic backups anytime it’s plugged in that will back up photos out of Facebook, Instagram and Picasa, for those who see fit to present it access.

The drive features unique video player, so videos is often played directly from a peripheral. You can record instantly to it, as well, if you’d wish to bypass the mobile device’s storage area altogether.

One important caveat to considerable time: The slimmer body is definitely thanks, in part, to the dropping of your internal battery on the previous generation, so the iPad/iPhone’s private built-in battery will drain lots of faster if you spend major time watching videos.

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