For iPhone users who’ve run out of storage or want the phone to play nicely with SD cards, there’s finally a solution, albeit an inelegant one.
ZoomMediaPlus has launched the ZoomIt, an SD card slot that plugs into the iPhone’s proprietary 30-pin connector. According to VentureBeat, users download an iPhone app that manages media on the device. Then, they can insert an SD card for viewing photos, playing music and reading documents.
Photos can be shared directly from the device to Flickr or e-mail, and the app automatically compresses the files down to a size appropriate for sharing. I’m hoping you can also transfer photos into the iPhone’s camera roll. These functions will prove valuable for someone who’s on the road without a computer, but wants to share or transfer files from a digital camera.
The ZoomIt’s ability to act as an storage extension is a little more dubious. Music and video files must be unprotected, otherwise they won’t play. That’s not so much a problem for music, as most MP3s are sold without DRM these days. However, video files are often locked up with copy protection, so this gadget will only come in handy for pirates, users who’ve cracked their videos’ DRM or home movie makers. Movies are easily the most storage-demanding files you could put on the iPhone, so it’s too bad DRM-shackled files aren’t supported, but ZoomMediaPlus says it’s working on an app update that will support popular types of DRM for music and video.
The ZoomIt will go on sale in April, but pre-orders are available now. List price is $59.95, and for a limited time, ZoomIt is offering a $10 discount. Also, VentureBeat says the first 250 orders will get a 4 GB SD HD card.
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Originally Posted by glamdring92
Wow so people are going to carry around this thing? Why can't apple just have some common sense and include a feature that every other phone does.
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Originally Posted by Blu-rayFreak
Yeah, it's all about "lock in" and consumer control. That's why Apple doesn't support a memory card slot, Adobe Flash or standard USB. They want to tightly control anything and everything, including all your app/media/other purchases related to their devices. Lame!
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*cough* Sony *cough*
Its Adobe who are locking you in to a crappy proprietary format. We should all thank Apple for making the significant push to do away with Flash.
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Originally Posted by ivid
We should all thank Apple for making the significant push to do away with Flash.
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I think apple just has something to fight with Adobe over because of all the graphical editing etc that apple emphasizes there company on.
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