I have to admit that one of the things that ‘made up my mind’ to buy this phone was the USB Flash Drive functionality.
One of the coolest things about the USB Drive is that I can carry the Nokia PC software suite around with me, and install it on the spot.
I’m thinking it would be great if people could run Quick Office on the phone, or straight off the USB on a PC keeping all data on the phone, much like the Sandisk U3 software suite.
Data transfers are allot quicker over the USB drive option, when moving data on and off the phone.
Don't use the PC Suite file manager, it's as 'slow as a wet week.'
I was also pretty impressed when the mp3 files that I had transferred via the USB drive option were automatically polled by the music player.
All the video I took last week was quickly sucked of the phone, and edited footage sent back for transport home.
With this sort of functionality, one might never need to remove the SD card.
There is loads of software that can run from a usb-stick and that keeps all the files on a USB-stick, this is also valid for a N95. U3 is not a requirement. There is OpenOffice, Skype, Firefox/Mozilla, Gaim for IM. Check the Portable Apps website for their listing of software. There are other websites too. Very cool is TrueCrypt. To mount a encrypted virtual partion from your usbstick as a separate removable drive under windows. Sadly there is no port for the N95.
ReplyDeleteWith the now available 4GB micro disk from Sandisk and the coming 8GB from from Samsung, data storage is getting really nice. Luckily since the bl**dy micro SD card is darn small.