{"video_id":"IBz_UC9Oi3s","title":"Kingston MobileLite Wireless","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2014-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":388,"segments":[{"start_s":6.56,"end_s":11.599,"text":"forair Raptor K40 keyboard and M45 Mouse","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.719,"end_s":15.759,"text":"are designed to provide best in-class features and performance for gaming","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.44,"end_s":20.48,"text":"click now to learn more the Kingston mobilite Wireless is a multi-purpose","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.8,"end_s":24.279,"text":"device it's a wireless video streamer so it's designed to stream to Portable","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.199,"end_s":28.199,"text":"devices like phones and tablets it is a wireless card reader so it has an SD","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.24,"end_s":33.32,"text":"card reader as well as a wireless USB reader for aention mobile devices 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videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"forair Raptor K40 keyboard and M45 Mouse are designed to provide best in-class features and performance for gaming click now to learn more the Kingston mobilite Wireless is a multi-purpose device it's a wireless video streamer so it's designed to stream to Portable devices like phones and tablets it is a wireless card reader so it has an SD card reader as well as a wireless USB reader for aention mobile devices and finally it is a backup battery although I really feel the first two are the ones where it really shows its strength whereas that third one is not a strong point for it it has an 1850 mAh battery for both itself for its own functionality and to charge an attached device so it's more like something you'd use an emergency as opposed to something where you'd have your phone Tethered to it while you wirelessly stream something to yourself and expect to sit and watch movies like that overall the device is a little bit on the larger side than I would have liked and it but still feels quite light and whether that to you is more like like an oh it feels kind of cheap or whether you prefer to have things be lightweight I I like it when things have a little bit of heft to them but the good news is that my initial impression of oh it feels kind of light and and expensive uh was correct it is relatively inexpensive for 50 bucks Kingston is giving you a platform with which to use your own storage in order to stream things wirelessly as opposed to most of the devices like this on the market that include storage and are therefore much more expensive so you can just use existing USB drive and SD cards that you have lying around which is definitely a plus also my experience continued to be positive once I fired up the app download so you can see I've got it running on a variety of platforms here everything from an iOS tablet down to a couple of Android smartphones and the ratings of the app in addition to my experience seem to uh reinforce that overall it's pretty darn good it doesn't have a lot of functionality and many of the mediocre ratings for the app are less to do with it didn't work it sucks and more to do with here's some great stuff Kingston could add in order to make it better which I think is is actually a very positive indicator of the direction that they're going with it stability first and then trying to add more features a lot of these Wireless streamers just flat out don't work very well the easy setup guide within the app is a little bit verbose it's a little bit text Heavy not as visual as I'd like but it covers all the basic stuff like connecting to the mobile light Wireless through Wi-Fi how to secure the connection and then how to set up internet p through so the all three of these devices have internet connections and they're streaming 1080p media from this thing at the same time the app could definitely be prettier particularly on the Android side but the functionality is Rock Solid and I didn't have to waste any time fighting with it to get it to work so I I think this is actually the first time that I've seen an app that really feels more mature and more solid on Android than it does on iOS and a kudos to Kingston for spending the time on the dominant plat what is now the dominant platform to make it actually work correctly so often I see the iOS app is awesome and the Android one is kind of like frankensteined together and even seeing both of them at parody is uh not as common as I'd like but in this case I really felt the Android one was quite strong even though the iOS one did look a little bit better I mean to be clear guys the iOS app is fine it's functional but it doesn't have the same uh the same number of features and part of this is is just iOS's fault in the first place so for example the uh ability to directly copy files back and forth wherever you need within the directory structure on the device is something that the Android app can do but the iOS 1 can't um something that I wouldn't mind seeing added to the iOS one is the ability to use a third-party player um so on the Android one I can use just the included player I can use BS Player I can use whatever I want so that I get great file compatibility whereas on the iOS one it basically just isn't even detecting the immedia file types that it's that it doesn't support so that was that was a bit of an issue for me with the iOS one um I did test with up to three devices streaming 1080p but these are uh reasonably low bit rate files like they're not like crazy uncompressed or anything like that and there were no issues at a range that I'd consider to be reasonable so anywhere within sort of 10 or 15 ft typically this is something I'd use for traveling in the car on a plane or something like that so you wouldn't be tremendously far away from it um one cool thing is that it does allow both the USB uh port and the SD card slot to be used at the same time so you can pack some serious storage punch if you want to all you do is use the app to select which one you're interested in browsing and you can browse the local storage on the device or built within the app on the iOS version as well Kingston does have a 1 tbte USB drive and then you could throw up to a 256 G SD card in there for a massive amount of storage in fact I've even seen people using them with USB hard drives if you have a um a pigtailed connector and then you use another USB connector for power and plug into a portable battery bank or something like that so there's a ton of flexibility here and I think overall my takeaway from this review is that it's great to see how much these devices have matured since the early attempts like the expensive and unsuccessful wi Drive um they still don't really make any sense at home since there are much better Solutions like air video and emit for streaming when you have anytime you have a data connection like from your home PC across Wi-Fi or even on someone else's Wi-Fi but for traveling particular on planes these things are a godsend the mobile light definitely gets a green light from me at under 50 bucks and I think it is a very very smart buy I guess I didn't really talk about it physically much so it's um got a USB charging port to charge the internal battery a USB port for the uh USB you know drive and then it has an SD card slot and I guess there's not really a whole lot to say power button so you hold that to turn it on thank you for checking out my overview and review whatever you want to call it of the mobile light w less from Kingston don't forget to like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment in the Linus Tech tips forums I'm going to have a link to the thread under the video if you don't want to Brave the swamp that is the YouTube comments and as always guys don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}