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more so the problem of not having enough storage space on your phone or tablet
has kind of been a thing for a while so to speak and the new thing to deal with
that thing is Wireless Storage so SanDisk is throwing their hat into the
ring with the SanDisk connect Series so this is the wireless flash drive and the
wirel media drive so these are intended to work with whether it's your PC or
your Mac or your iOS device or your Android device phones tablets computers
all that kind of stuff to expand your storage and allow you to access it
wirelessly so they both support uh WPA2
Wi-Fi protection access from around 150 ft they both support eight concurrent
users for file sharing but this is where things start to get a little bit
different so the flash drive let's do a quick tour of this one support streaming
video to up to three concurrent users comes with 16 gigs of storage in it by
default although you can increase that
now I think they call it expandable storage but I wouldn't quite call it
expandable storage because it's more like increasable storage because this
contrary to what you might think from its form factor is not actually a thumb
drive it's more of a micro SD card reader so it comes with a 16 gig micro
SD card inside there you go so there's a SanDisk Ultra card in there um it also
supports up to 4 hours of continuous streaming so that's around half the
battery life of the larger media drive and I think that was the other main
difference okay so fewer concurrent users for video and only 4 hours on a
charge next up we've got the wireless media drive which actually has a really
nice ID so this is more of the premium product so it's got kind of a nice
textured uh Square finish on the top of it actually looks quite striking and
then an aluminum band around the outside so there's the charging port it comes
with a charging cable as well as a wall wart that should be I'm guessing a 500
milliamp wall wart 300 milliamp wall
wart okay there you go and then also
this one has a power button right here and finally ah yes SD card expansion so
there's 32 gigs inside and you can actually add additional memory to it as
needed with a full-sized SD card this
one supports five concurrent users for video eight hours of battery life and
eight concurrent users for just general file sharing however with all of these
devices I could tell you oh yeah this one charges just by plugging in via USB
and then the power buttons here uh this one I mean the all these devices are
pretty much the same thing except it's going to come down to software support
so we're going to fire up the app and see how well it works so SanDisk
actually has two separate apps one for the pen drive and one for the media
drive so we used the media drive one just because they seemed to be pretty
similar otherwise if you've ever used one of these before you'll be familiar with this so you basically just connect
to the Wi-Fi network that it is it doesn't doesn't come with any Security
on it by default but the good news is that when you go into the settings here
I'm just going to go ahead and put this down right here so when you go into the settings it's really easy to figure out
the default admin stuff so you just uh put admin admin and then you can log in
update your firmware see your battery life all that kind of cool stuff which
is neat you also have a few different ways to browse your files so you I
generally prefer just looking at a directory structure so here we can check
out my resume see here you go I haven't done one of those in a long time yay
LinkedIn and then you can see there's some default music on
here so it goes ahead it plays within its own Media Player app and
unfortunately the media player app has very limited compatibility so we have
some Approaching Nirvana songs that it unfortunately wasn't able to play
because they are uh wave files um another example of sort of limited
limited compatibility was you can see uh MP4s are the ones that are supported by
the default app I wouldn't have minded seeing integration with third party apps
like o player so this Adventure Time video plays just fine but here's a much
higher bit rate file this is a 1080p file that I recorded with this phone and
unfortunately playing back wirelessly uh does stutter a little bit I don't know
if you guys can see that but it is able yeah see there it goes but it is able to
play it back because it is compatible um
other than that you're able to ah yes browsing photos so check this out it
comes with some preloaded photos so you can go ahead and check those out takes a
little while to load the first time so I was getting a little bit of loading time
before but you can see it's not nearly as bad anymore so that's my old computer
if you guys want to check that out got my all-in Wonder 9600 Pro in there so
basically the conclusion is very small very compact great ID particularly on
the media drive that is industrial design for those of you who aren't familiar with that but I would like to
see some more maturity on the app itself
one thing that I do like about it is that you have the option to download the
files locally should you so desire so that should eliminate any kind of like
stuttering or weirdness so I wouldn't mind seeing them um integrate sort of
other third party players with the files that you can play back or I mean you
look at how long someone like Seagate has been working on their Media Player
app and sort of how mature that is so I think we're probably going to see this
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