Thanks, that's what I figured. I was just hoping it might be able to do that.
Sent from a land far far away in a not so distant time zone! > On Oct 12, 2017, at 1:14 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Michael, > > None of these drives allow you to put music into your phone to where the > Music app can access it. You can use it to transfer music, but you will be > restricted to playing the music from in the app that is for the iStick or > whatever other drive you have, there might be third party players which > support it, but essentially it’s no different than using Dropbox or OneDrive > where your files or music are stored in the cloud and where you need to use > the Dropbox app or OneDrive app to play them back. > There are a ton of wireless hard drives and such out there which have apps > which let you connect to them, but the limitations set by Apple have not > changed significantly in this regard. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Mike Ulrich > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2017 10:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: How To Connect To A Flashdrive > > Hey, this thing looks pretty cool. Do you think you could transfer music MP3 > files from one’s laptop; into their IPhone, using this wireless drive? > I guess the crux of it would be in going from the thumbdrive into the IPhone? > > Michael D. Ulrich > Just an ordinary average blind guy! > Florida Council of the Blind > Fundraising Committee Member > !**********! > FCB 7th Annual Blind Fishing Tournament! > Saturday March 24, 2018! > Cape Coral Yacht Club; 5819 Driftwood Pkwy. Cape Coral, Fl. 33904 > !**********! > Mike’s home phone: 239-540-7431 > Mike’s cell phone: 239-565-5845 > Mike’s email: [email protected] > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Doc wright > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2017 11:20 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: How To Connect To A Flashdrive > > Here is an alternative I found on Amazon. > Wireless flash drives for smart phones, pc’s and Mac’s. > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Mike B. > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 9:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How To Connect To A Flashdrive > > For anyone that's interested this article at the link below has a lot of > information, but you'll need to go to the website to click on the embedded > links of the article > > https://www.recode.net/2014/7/15/11628812/finally-a-usb-thumb-drive-for-the-latest-iphones-and-ipads > > Finally, a USB Thumb Drive for the Latest iPhones and iPads > The iStick lets you transfer a wide variety of files between a Mac or PC and > iOS devices with Lightning connectors. > by > Walt Mossberg > @waltmossberg > Jul 15, 2014, 7:00am EDT > > For all of their popularity, Apple’s iPhones and iPads have sometimes been > knocked for lacking the ability to accept USB thumb drives. With a thumb > drive, > users would be able to quickly and easily transfer files between their mobile > devices and their computers. Microsoft has even been using the lack of a > USB port on the iPad as a selling point in > ads > for its latest Surface tablet. > > It’s not that you can’t transfer files back and forth between, say, an iPad > and a laptop. It’s just that you have to use less direct, and sometimes > slower, > methods than you’re used to when using thumb drives between two computers. > For instance, you can use email attachments, or cloud services like Dropbox, > or you can transfer files via > an obscure feature of iTunes. > And, this coming fall, Apple is introducing a > cloud-based file storage service > and expanding its file-exchanging wireless AirDrop feature so it works > between Macs and iOS devices that are near each other. > > But, late next month, a small California company plans to introduce an actual > iOS-compatible thumb drive called iStick. It’s specifically designed to move > files in both directions between computers and iOS devices that use Apple’s > current charging and syncing port, which is called the Lightning connector. > It also allows you to view or play the files right from the drive itself, so > you don’t have to transfer them and take up space on your target device if > you’d rather not. > > The company funded iStick on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter. It was > seeking $100,000, but raised $1.1 million. > > I’ve been testing an early, pre-production version of iStick and its > companion app of the same name, and found that it does indeed work as > advertised for > file transfers. It still has a few bugs to work out before shipping, and the > process isn’t quite as simple as it is between two computers, due to the > unusual > file system used by iOS. But the product works, and I suspect it will be > welcomed by many iPhone and iPad users. > iStick dual shot > > The iStick is a small, rectangular plastic device with a light-up slider > button in the middle. You slide the button one way to expose a standard USB > jack > you can use in a Mac or PC, and slide it the other way to expose a Lightning > connector you can plug into a late-model iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. > > It’s made by a company called Sanho, based in Fremont, Calif., whose mostly > Apple-oriented hardware accessories go by the brand Hyper. And it’s much > pricier > than a simple, commodity USB thumb drive. It starts at $80 for an eight > gigabyte model, and ranges up to $250 for 128GB of storage. The company says > the > higher prices are required to license the Lightning connector and to meet > stringent Apple requirements. > > The iStick is billed as the first USB thumb drive for the Lightning > connector, but there have been some predecessors. A company called PhotoFast > makes > a product called > i-FlashDrive > that works similarly, but it uses the older, wider, 30-pin connector and > requires an adapter for the latest iPhones and iPads. And other companies have > made thumb drives, such as > AirStash, > which have no iOS connector at all, and beam files to iPhones and iPads > wirelessly. > > In my tests, iStick file transfers worked between a variety of devices, > including an iPhone 5s, an iPad mini, an iPad Air, a Mac and a Windows laptop. > I was able to move and use files ranging from pictures, songs and videos to > Microsoft Office files and PDFs — in both directions. > > After loading up the iStick with files from your computer, you just slide the > button to pop out the Lightning connector and plug it into the charging port > on your iOS device. Immediately, the iStick app pops up; you use that app to > view, play or transfer the files on the thumb drive to a local file repository > on your mobile device. No wireless or Internet connection is required, and > any files you’ve transferred to the on-device, local storage area remain > available > for use even after you remove the drive — again, with no wireless or Internet > connection required. > > iStick software > The app is a simple, gray screen with four large, circular buttons. One > displays files on the drive, a second one the files in local storage, a third > offers > quick access to the photo library on the iOS device and the last allows you > to back up your contacts to the iStick or restore them from the iStick. > > Three of the four buttons worked fine in my tests. The fourth, the Contacts > backup feature, isn’t yet working, according to Sanho, but the company > promises > it will be working by the time the product ships. > > By pressing the button representing the drive, I was able to play music and > videos, display photos and view documents — right from the drive, and with > little delay. Or, by tapping an icon, I could move one or more of the files > on the drive into the local file storage area on the iPhone or iPad itself. > > I could imagine popping the little iStick into my briefcase before a flight, > loaded with movies, songs and work documents, and then using them right from > the thumb drive during a flight, even without Wi-Fi, and without taking up > space on my iPhone or iPad. > > So, what about other bugs, and why is the process more cumbersome than > laptop-to-laptop USB drive transfers? > > Well, in the pre-production models I tested, the app had the wrong name. It’s > called i-USBKey, and is intended to work with a companion device the company > is marketing in Europe under the brand of its distributor there, called > Bidul. The European product, however, won’t work with newer iOS devices using > the > Lightning connector, only older models that used the former 30-pin connector. > > The apps are otherwise identical, and Sanho says the naming will be corrected > by the time iStick ships. The i-USBKey app still worked fine with the iStick. > > The cumbersome part comes in when you want to use a file transferred to the > iStick local storage area with another app on your iOS device, and it’s due > to the way iOS manages files, not an issue with the iStick itself. Unlike on > a computer, iOS devices don’t have a visible, system-wide file system. > Instead, > files that can be used by an app can only be fully used, beyond just viewing > them, via that app. > > Apple gets around this using a function called “Open in…,” which offers a > list of compatible apps when you press an icon in an open file. So, for > instance, > in my tests, I was only able to edit a Word document transferred from the > iStick by pressing an iOS sharing icon at the upper right and then moving it > to Word for iPad or another word processor, like Apple’s Pages. > > Still, I found iStick to be a useful, if pricey, accessory for my iPad and > iPhone, and one many users would value. > Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers! > Sent from my iBarstool. > Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the > end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mike B. > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 8:20 PM > Subject: Re: How To Connect To A Flashdrive > > Hi Sieghard, > > Thank you & yes, that's understood, but I'm trying to find out what the app / > company is named so I can check it out. I'll try some different search > terms, & see what pops up, figuratively speaking of course! LOL > Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers! > Sent from my iBarstool. > Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the > end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sieghard Weitzel > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 7:28 PM > Subject: RE: How To Connect To A Flashdrive > > You can’t unless it’s a special flash drive with a Lightning port on one end > and then you have to use the app of whatever flash drive you bought for this > purpose. You can’t just connect a flash drive and access it like on Windows. > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Mike B. > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 5:28 PM > To: VIPhone <[email protected]> > Subject: How To Connect To A Flashdrive > > Hi All, > > What do I need to do or buy to be able to connect a flashdrive to my SE > iPhone running iOS 10.33? Thanks much. > Take care. Mike. 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