DataCase Turns your iPhone into Wireless Storage Drive [iPhone Apps Review]

One of the most anticipated iPhone apps, DataCase developed by Veiosoft has just hit the iPhone App Store.

The app turns your iPhone into a wireless storage drive that can be accessed by any other device on your wireless network, and includes a viewer for the most popular file formats such as Word, Excel, pdf, etc.

You can checkout the review of DataCase after the jump.

As mentioned earlier it turns your iPhone into a wireless storage drive that can be accessed by any other device on your wireless network.

The good thing about the iPhone app is that you do not need to install any application on the Mac and it can be used with a PC as well as a Linux machine.

It is a lot simpler to use the program from the Mac as the app makes use of Bonjour technology. All you need to do is connect the iPhone to the wireless network and it will appear in the list of shared computers in the finder toolbar (they have mentioned that in case of Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 users, you will need to browse the list of network servers to find the iPhone).

If you are a Windows users, you will need to open Windows Explorer and then type the URL in the address bar to access your iPhone. You should find the URL at the bottom of DataCase's home screen after launching it ( it starts with "ftp://").

Once you are connected to the iPhone from your computer, browsing, transferring of files to and from the iPhone is surprisingly quick.

The user interface of the iPhone app is quite simple, tapping on the folder icon on its home screen displays the available volumes on the iPhone and tapping a specific volume displays its contents. You can apparently create up to 16 volumes with individual permission settings.

You have access to two default volumes on the iPhone -- Drop Box and Shared Files. Drop Box is a write-only volume, so others can only drop files for you to view. Shared files as the name suggests is a read-write volume, so you can use it to receive or distribute files.

You can also view the files such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and pdf and also open Audio, Video, and Photos files on your iPhone using DataCase's built-in file viewer.

You can checkout the video clip below to get an overview of the iPhone application:

Based on my initial impression, DataCase seems to be well worth the $6.99 price tag. You can download Veiosoft's DataCase app using this iTunes link.

As always it will be great to know your feedback on DataCase in the comments.

 

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