The Arc midi R2 by fractal design features massive air flow and highly
flexible liquid cooling support click now to learn more well I guess it was a
matter of time someone was going to take
the whole portable power bank thing for your cell phone or your tablet or
whatever and they were going to say Well it has a battery in it already I guess
it might as well do other stuff so ad data has brought us the ae4 400 which
is a wireless storage device portable
battery backup as well as it if I could
get this plastic
seal in there we go all right so it
allows you it is a card reader it is a wireless data storage device as well as
a power bank all in one so before the
first time you use it wow look at this user guide it's like a bajillion Pages
this better have like 16 languages in it uh please charge for eight hours before
using and it has 1 2 3 4 5 6 7even
8 11 languages in it all right well I'll give them a pass on that so the device
itself is actually reasonably small considering that it's a 5,000 milliamp
hour portable charger there you go it has a single SD card reader right there
then it also has a button on the top a US USB port for charging this guy
and then an additional USB port as an output for charging other things so I
definitely understand why they have a bit of a beefy manual because there are
some intricacies when it comes to using a device like this that's very allinone
but actually only has one button they've taken the Apple approach of one button
is good enough for everything you need to do but there's no touchscreen so
basically here's here's how it works the one button is right here integrated into
the pattern on the top of the device which is actually kind of nice looking Al maybe a little over the top for the
more manly of our viewers there is a battery indicator here that is red
orange or green depending on battery life as long as you're over 50% that'll
be green and then there are little LED indicators that show you what
functionality is enabled at any given time so right now we are in Wireless
transfer mode which is actually kind of cool you download the dash Drive Elite
app and let's face it it is not as featur as some of the other competing
products that are dedic ated like media streaming devices like the Corsair
Voyager air for example but what it does do is it allows you to very simply so
I'm connected to the dash Drive air through Wi-Fi and it's just uh all the
default settings are documented in the manual so that shouldn't be too
difficult and then you can use it as a pass through to connect up to 10 devices
to it at a time and still have internet access so I'm connected to it and then
basically all I do is using either USB
or an SD card either of which is fine you go to air Elite and it just gives
you a directory listing of all your files so you can do oh I think I'm yeah
I already scrolled down because I was using this before so you can um open up
something like a Word document or PowerPoint should you see fit so here's
a here's a PowerPoint from an episode of netlink weekly that's just going to open
up right there so we can go ahead and presumably yep there we go just go back
navigation is a little funny like back here will take me out of the app so you
use up here to navigate I think this is because they use the same UI for iOS as
well as Android which is um not really
recommended but I mean it seems to be working what's oh no continue playing so
we we'll play this again so what's great about the Android version is because
Android actually with thirdparty players is able to support a pretty wide variety
of media formats you can even play videos directly off of the USB drive
that's plugged into the dash Drive air uh ae400 which is a complicated name for
the product but whatever um on iOS I didn't have quite as much luck with that
because the formats are a little bit more restrictive but you can see the app
works in much the same way so there's the whole file transfer thing but it
does more than that of course so you cycle through the different modes by
clicking the button and it's going to take you a little while to get the hang of what the different indicators mean
they're not that easy to see um but
pretty much what you can do you can wirelessly read and transfer from USB or
from SD you can use it as a power bank
you can use it as a wired SD card reader
so that's simply by plugging it into the computer the way that you normally
intuitively would and it'll charge while you're doing that and then just plugging an SD card in and then last but not
least it is uh wait I think I think that's I think that's it I'm having a
hard time wrapping my brain around all the stuff it does share a wireless
hotspot that wireless data transfer so there you go guys no real Frills no
gimmicks but it's these devices are getting more and more integrated and I
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