By all metrics, Kingston's wireless Wi-Drive
has been a successful product: the company is still selling it two
years later, and has since refreshed it with beefier
storage and Android
compatibility. If there's one thing customers complained
about, though, it was the lack of expandable memory -- a problem
if you used all the space on the drive, or if you already had
stuff stored on an SD card. With that in mind, the company's
coming out with the MobileLite Wireless, which ditches internal
storage in favor of an SD slot and USB 2.0 port. (It will also
ship with a microSD adapter.) At the same time, it packs a modest
five-hour battery you can use to recharge USB-powered gadgets;
Kingston says there's enough juice in there to fully charge a
phone, but probably not a tablet.
Technically speaking, you can access everything stored on the
device by typing the MobileLite's IP address into a browser. But
for all intents and purposes, this is currently an iOS exclusive,
as that's the only platform for which you can download an app. As
with the Wi-Drive, though, Kingston plans to add an Android app,
as well as one for WP8. In the beginning, at least, it will be
available through just a couple sellers (Amazon and Staples), with
street prices expected to fall somewhere between $50 and $70. Any
questions? We hope not: this thing's aimed squarely at mainstream
users, so if Engadget readers don't get it, we're going to be
seriously concerned about all the regular folk.
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