Apple iPhone as mass storage device – ecamm’s iPhoneDrive lets you store data on your iPhone
By Will Park on Thursday, July 12th, 2007 at 12:01 PM PST In iPhone
With all that beautiful NAND flash memory that Apple is hoarding from the NAND flash industry in order to get it into your iPhone, why not take full advantage and use some free space to store some data files? With the iPhone’s file system cracked and open for all to use, turning the iPhone into a mass storage solution was an obvious next step. ecamm’s iPhoneDrive software gives you access to those remaining gigabytes of space on your iPhone for storing anything you want – office documents, email backups, video clips of “The View” (what, we’re the only ones that likes the show?).
The first release from the makers of iGlasses and iChatUSBCam does not allow you to rename a files once it’s on the iPhone, nor can you drag files around the file structure once it’s in there. Still, the transfer of 350MB should take about 5 minutes – not bad at all.
The iPhoneDrive software is available for a 7-day trial, after which time you’ll have to shell out $10 for further use. If you’re going to try it out just for kicks, make sure to take all the data off the iPhone before your trial-time expires – otherwise you’ll end up paying for a full version to get that data off (short of a full restore, at least).
Download the software here.
[Via: TUAW]
interesting!
Yea, it is. But I’ll just fill up all the space with music and videos.
I fail to see the point of this application. iTunes has an option “allow disk access” which, when turned on, will allow you to open up your iPhone as a drive in Explorer and you can drag and drop all the documents/etc you want.
Is this not an option on the Mac version?
THATS A GOOD I DEAR TO USE THE IPHONE AS A MASS STORAGE UNIT ESPECALY IF YOU GET THE 16 GB IPHONE THE 8 GB IS A GOOD MASS STORAGE UNIT. I HOPE THE 3 G VERSION IPHONE WILL HAVE 32 OR 64 GB SSD FLASH DRIVE
This question is for Paul. Could you tell me where the “allow disk access” is and what the process is to set up my iPhone to store PC data files?
This is a great idea indeed! Who wouldn’t want to use their iPhone as a flash drive? It’s like having a multipurpose external harddrive in ur pocket with all ur important data at all times! Genius!
Allow disk access has been removed by apple on the new ipod touch and iphones. Use DiskAid(http://www.digidna.net/diskaid/) to see the contents of your iphone or ipod similar to windows explorer like window. They have it for both Mac and Windows. Why pay for iPhoneDrive when this is free..
DiskAid is $10, but does look nice.