I’m a bit mystified by the Airstash, the latest iPhone accessory to come out of CES.
It looks good on the tin: the AirStash is a dongle that allows you to greatly expand the internal storage of your iPhone or iPod Touch. You just plug an SD card into it, slap it into your computer, transfer files on over, then put it in your pocket. Now, as long as your iPod Touch or iPhone is in WiFi distance of your AirStash, you can access its contents. But those are all the details we have.
At first blush, those details are enough: who wouldn’t want more space on their iPhone or iPod Touch? But, really, what do we use our internal storage for? Movies, videos and apps. There’s the rub: the AirStash might expand storage, but it won’t allow you to launch apps that are stored on the dongle, and my guess is that it won’t integrate with iTunes for music and movies. That makes this peripheral fairly useless for a large number of people.
My guess is that the AirStash is mostly just a dongle for people who might need to email files that they can’t natively store on their iPhone or iPod Touch. Not bad functionality, certainly, but limited in scope.
Still, this is all speculation: we should know more about the AirStash, including availability and price, later on this week.
[via Engadget]
