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Mossberg Reviews Fancy Flash Drive

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    WSJ Personal Technology Columnist Walt Mossberg reviews the AirStash wireless flash drive.

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And more coming up for you in the next thirty minutes.

If Europe hiding away for an easier way to -- to have more stories based on her iPad even your I've.

No USB port there but there is an answer and flash drive truck wirelessly -- information to these -- Magic from DC we have all things digital this week the Walt Mossberg the personal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal condolences on the loss of the patriots.

We know what we know you're a big Red Sox -- so we assume your big patriots fan.

But I ahead thank you for the -- you know the world one big happy family here tell us about this.

Tells about this little device shall there about last week.

At -- OK so this.

Is a USB flash drive looks like.

Anyone that you see.

But you can't plug in here to this iPhone.

Lot of other android devices which you'll notice and media -- -- the camera can pick this up but there's a little blinking light on here.

There's a button if I push this button.

-- anything that I loaded on here from a computer in the normal fashion.

Can be -- to -- shared with.

This iPhone or any other device and again I know -- screens too small to see but I'm playing.

Star Trek.

Can -- -- yeah.

The Star Trek movie and it's here it's not I'm here not on the Internet.

This.

-- -- is not currently connected via Internet it's connected to a Wi-Fi network it is created by this device called the years that.

While it it there's one major major problem that you had with us.

And that was -- -- -- say what it is but they are going to fix that shortly from what your column brought.

So the problem is.

It is very very clever and by the way it's not just movies it's -- its music its documents submitted by a business documents.

I can view them in some cases edit them on.

Ipads and iphones and other devices and -- all stored on here but the big problem is that because this.

Uses its own Wi-Fi network and you have to connect the device to that Wi-Fi network to get.

Connection working.

You can't at the same time beyond -- -- -- -- They I have a new a feature called that they call side blink which will allow you to do both at the same time.

It's coming -- a sometime next month com.

And so that will solve that problem that was -- my biggest problem with -- -- second biggest problem.

Is price yes cost a 150 dollars for this for.

Eight gigabytes of storage.

There's a lot of stuff on -- eight gigabytes of storage.

There's like four.

Feature length movies are five and a bunch of documents and music and photos but still -- fifty dollars is a lot.

There is a slot on the bottom -- you can put your own.

Memory cards to -- -- the memory but still you've got to start.

But paying at least a 150 which.

Hopefully they would eventually bring down but meanwhile.

If you want to expand.

This storage -- -- iPad -- -- -- Kindle fire whatever.

And you want to be able to.

You know carry files and and move them from computer to this this does work he works just -- advertise.

Well -- just seems really quickly light there would be obvious competitors to come along and compete with this device you expect that.

Yeah and there are some -- Sort of I'm hard drives that.

That also -- try to wirelessly beam to these things and it has a few competitors are -- it's it's a small field.

This is the one this is the only one -- -- -- -- -- -- and I could be wrong about this but I think it's the only one.

It takes the form of a USB flash drive and is so small.

And self contained it you know it doesn't have a separate charger anything it does have a battery but when it.

And it -- about seven hours but you can just.

Plug it into the to a -- charger or into computer.

And we -- -- and I think that the fact that it does have this -- amendments to small.

Makes -- -- usual right.

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