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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
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