This is probably the first charging port accessory that I’ve found interesting. It works a lot like the USB-based SD card readers you likely use with your desktop machines, but this one plugs right into the charging port on your iPhone and interfaces with its own custom-made app to view, share, and transfer your media. If the software really is as capable as it sounds, then there are quite a few possibilities that this little gadget opens up.
You’re apparently quite free to move files to and from the card and the in-app File Manager. However, the standard Apple limitations still apply: the only external app that ZoomIt can interface with is the camera and camera roll. You can save pictures straight to the SD card, and you can transfer photos between the camera roll and SD card. Everything else has to be done shared or viewed within the ZoomIt app. I’d usually use Pastebot to transfer files to and from my MacBook Pro, but when you’re out and about – or at somebody else’s house if you have real friends (I’m working on this) – then transferring via SD is much easier than convincing your friend to please buy-a-Mac-and-install-PastebotSync, please.
ZoomIt isn’t out yet, but you can pre-order it (supposedly ships April) now for $60, and the app is available for free on the App Store. By the way, I looked at the App Store and somebody has already reviewed the app and given it five stars. I wonder what “Rava68” did with the ZoomIt app without using an SD card…
[via Wired]
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