http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/ Engadget Comments for AirStash wireless SD card reader hands-on http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 4:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 4:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 5:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/
Android devices typically have SD card slots, but it would be neat if they made something for the android stuff.]]>Jan 11th 2010 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/
Oh yeah, because Apple won't put a damn SD card slot in the iPhone so they can force people to buy a new iPhone for an extra 8 gigs.]]>Jan 11th 2010 5:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/+1]]>Jan 11th 2010 5:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/
Instead of simply plugging a memory card into a phone, you have to buy and carry an additional device, keep both phone and card reader charged all the time, deal with the shortened phone battery life due to WiFi usage and on top of that you need to restrict your WiFi connection to the card reader.

And after all those annoying facts, the integration is practically non-existant - handling files only via the browser? Reeeeally?

This is just stupid on so many levels.]]>Jan 11th 2010 6:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 6:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 5:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/
Now iPhone finally has the cutting edge technology of reading memory cards... wow cool. Oh boy, I just wish all my other phones could do that..

mike: hey john, what is that?
john: my wifi memory card reader for iphone. cool hun?
mike: err...
]]>Jan 11th 2010 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 7:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/

But in general i think the whole concept is quite good and i would love it if there were wireless hard drives with very fast connectivity and about 1 TB capacity so it would be easy to access your media from anywhere in your home without too many cables and without extra devices to provide the connectivity (like a NAS or a PC attached to the HDD).]]>Jan 11th 2010 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/suited for large storage devices instead of just SD cards.

OAN, did anyone notice that phone was in Edge mode? I go to Vegas a
couple of times a year and the AT&T 3G is everywhere and nowhere at
the same time. I could make calls on my iPhone and that was about it.]]>Jan 11th 2010 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/
Try explaining that to the TSA
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Except their target market (iPhone users) doesn't have a bluetooth profile that would allow that sort of connection.]]>Jan 11th 2010 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/
French House related shenanigans all on Engadget!]]>Jan 11th 2010 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/
I like this device, but it need to support bluetooth and DLNA for me to buy it, and SDXC would be nice as well.]]>Jan 11th 2010 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/
We're very disappointed that we weren't able to demonstrate AirStash live for Engadget. The problem with our demo unit turned out to be an issue with our alpha software and we're already working on fixing it. We'll be sending review units to Engadget this month, so stay tuned to see the units in action!

I'd like to address a few points that were raised in the comments. AirStash is much, much more than just an SD adapter for the iPhone. It's a portable flash drive with a built in media server that you can use to share content with many different kinds of devices. It's the easiest way to view a document or media from a computer on your portable device. You don't need to install any synchronization software: just plug AirStash in to the computer, drag the media to your phone, and connect.

AirStash is also for sharing content with multiple devices quickly and easily. Let's say you want to give out the latest digital copy of a presentation or a document before a meeting. You don't need to pass around a flash drive, wait for a large document to send via email, or rely on there being a working hotspot nearby that all meeting participants can connect to.

The interface you see in the pictures is a basic interface that will be available to all connected WiFi devices. For the iPhone and iPod touch, there is a HTML5 web interface that looks and feels just like a native app, but with no installation required. We'll be posting a video of this interface in action so you can see just what it looks like.

Yes, we do like french house music and all other kinds of music too. The track "Big Furry Head" is from Amon Tobin's album "Foley Room". If you haven't heard of him, we encourage you to check him out!

Brian Mastenbrook
CTO Wearable Inc. (Makers of AirStash)
http://twitter.com/AirStash]]>Jan 11th 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 11th 2010 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/Jan 12th 2010 1:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/airstash-wireless-sd-card-reader-hands-on/
As a professional press photographer I could really use this. I shoot with a Canon DSLR. I could travel light with just an iPhone or iPod Touch. Grab the pics from the card then email them back to my web desk for quick posting of breaking news.

If it works ..... I love it]]>Jan 12th 2010 11:45AM