With a WiFi USB stick, you can drag photos, videos, music and more from your smartphone or tablet, i.e. from your iPhone or iPad, directly to the storage medium via WiFi. So you can save yourself adapters or the purchase of special memory sticks with a Lightning connector. SanDisk, among others, offers WLAN USB sticks from 16GB to 256GB, from which even music and HD films can be streamed.
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WLAN USB stick: transferring data wirelessly
Increase the storage of your iPhone or iPad wirelessly? Or send files from the computer to the stick in your pocket via WLAN? Or maybe streamed a film from a stick onto the screen in the info class? You can theoretically do all of this with the SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick make. The WLAN USB stick can be used with the wireless standard 802.11n and with the appropriate App be controlled. According to the manufacturer, the stick supports USB 2.0, iOS 8, Android 4.2, Windows Vista, macOS 10.6 (as well as “and higher”). In addition to iPad, iPhone and iPod, you can also use a Mac, a Windows PC and Android devices, Kindle Fire and other tablets to exchange data wirelessly.
Further data on the WiFi storage medium in brief
- Different storage sizes: 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, 200GB and 256GB
- Dimensions: 77 mm x 19 mm x 11 mm
- WLAN details: 802.11n network protocol, WPA2 for password protection
- Power supply: internal battery available
- Connect Drive app: Download for iOS / Download for Android
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Buy SanDisk Wifi Connect at a discount
You can currently get this flash drive with WiFi connection and integrated battery at reduced prices from Amazon (as of May 9, 2017). For example, the 16GB model has a € 4 discount, and the 256GB model saves you € 7. Some models in between are also offered with a higher price reduction of up to 18 euros. On the product page you can select the model you want and see what is currently being issued:
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Is that something for you?
Hiking, camping, business trips, exchanging data at home, in the office, at school and so on: I think there are many practical areas of application for this type of USB stick. What do you think? Do you have a use for the SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick - or do you know any useful alternatives? Feel free to leave a comment :)
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