Important Concerns and Considerations

As long as you image the Wi-Drive as an external hard drive or USB flash drive, the lack of apparent features will not bother you. There are some things that definitely need to be noted though when using this device.

For starters, the device will allow you to connect up to three devices wirelessly to it at once. If you are on a long car trip with your family, you could share one repository of media (be it pictures, documents, or video – basically anything the iOS device would normally understand), and allow everyone in the car to consume the media at the same time.

But, is there a drawback? Yes, a big one. Because the iOS device has to make a wireless connection to the Wi-Drive, it does not leave a wireless connection available to connect to the Internet with. This is probably not a big deal on an iPhone, which also has cellular data available, but for iPad and iPod touch users, this may be an issue unless you connect it to a wireless network first.  This device has the ability to connect to a wireless network like a computer, and then share across the network to three connected devices, allowing both an Internet connection as well as a connection to the Wi-Drive. This is definitely a boon to the device.

Battery life on this device is rated at 4 hours. Based upon the size and weight of the device, it is clear that there really is not that large of a battery in there. I would like to have seen a slightly bigger and heavier version of the product so that it would be able to support a bigger battery.

Finally, the other major drawback is storage. The review unit here has 16GB of storage, and there is a 32GB available. With iPhone storage at 64GB now, I am definitely a bit surprised that there is not a larger storage option available.