LAS VEGAS — On the surface, there’s nothing very exciting about a portable flash drive. It doesn’t excite me at all. But make that drive a sleek, Lightning-equipped, 256GB beast of a thing, and now we’re talking.
The Leef iBridge, on display here at International CES, packs the most storage of any iOS-compatible hard drive on the market. But all that space comes at a steep price.
$399.99, to be exact. Certainly jaw-dropping, but something in me, and obviously in the Leef team, believes there’s at least a few people out there who will buy it. If not, the cheaper 128GB ($200), 64GB ($120), 32GB ($80) and 16GB ($60) models should appeal to the layman.
There’s a nice companion iOS app that reads what you’ve stored and even lets you shoot photos/video directly to the drive. Not a bad thing to have for a photo adventure in the wilderness. Or if you still don’t have enough storage available to install iOS 8.
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One response to “Leef’s iBridge expands your iPhone’s storage by 256GB, for a price”
Hmmmm. Unless this is transparent to the OS and to the USER, this is a waste of money. You might as well use dropbox or one drive to offload stuff.
Am I missing something or does this require the app to access the data stored on it. I would want more storage for APPs than for photos and you can do that for free using any number of cloud storage sites.
That said – Great idea (albeit expensive) if I can reboot my phone and have it go from 64GB to 320GB and never have to think about it again.