After two weeks of all the iPhone apps I care to download, I can say this: most of them are useless. I use a few of them daily (Facebook, MySpace, Loopt, Phonesaber) and a few others occasionally (BoxOffice, Pandora, Twitterific). Most, though, sit unused after testing and are far from being “must-have applications.”
DataCase, though, looks to be different. It will turn your iPhone into a wireless drive for file storage, and includes a viewer for most popular file formats (Office, PDF, etc.). The application has been highly anticipated but is yet to launch - the creator says by email that they want it to be perfect before releasing it.
For now we have to settle for the demo video that they just put up on YouTube and is embedded below. DataCase will cost $7 when it does launch, and I expect a lot of people will buy it immediately. This is exactly the kind of utility application that I need. The ability to email out any file on the phone would be a nice feature add, too.
Soon the iPhone and anything similar other companies will come out with will essentially allow for the elimination of the need of laptops. - Speaking of which, I’m about ready to toss mine out the window. Heads up!
filemagnet does a similar thing i think though i have not tried it ..
FileMagnet does this already and supports video.
awesome, i’ll be buying this for sure!
I’m going to need a lot more iPhone’s storage
“PhoneSaber” daily? Heh.
dude, you use phonesaber regularly? lol, for what?
I only bought my iphone for phonesaber, hoping for some great features when they release phonesaber 2.0
this is cool, and I agree with Michael that if we can send files by email, that would be cool.
This is indeed a interesing product, though something to remember its still not sure we will see this in the AppStore. I really hope so but this product could be violating Apples R&R for supported applications.
Also lets dream a little ahead with the potential this application shows is possible. We already know form the “unlocked” iPhones that you can run apache, infact an entire webserver on an iPhone. Now image you would have a application like Datacase and for example (xampp) combined. You could sit somewhere and mimic a webserver to for whatever purpose you might need that…
as I said, lets dream ahead, but I am sure this is something we will see in the near future if Apple is going to release such applications.
Read the restrictions of the SDK then dream on, retard.
You’re supposed to put your signature on a new line.
Is there any way to connect the iPhone ad-hoc direct to a laptop? if so, this would be awesome.
Michael, you should try SugarSync. Syncs your files online and across the computers and have very neat webapp for iPhone where you can view documents, send links for other people to download with no size limitation.
Im sure soon they will also develop proper iPhone app.
WOW!!! I will try this.
I love my IPhone
Did they really mean to make it look like a toilet seat?
Ideally iDisk within MobileMe should have done this. However we all know where that is at.
I am glad to see these guys jump on the opportunity. In addition to email feature it will be cool to save files from email to the disk. This way I can download large attachments when I am in WiFi and browse them later on. Otherwise the IMAP email client will initiate the download again.
Finally I think these guys should implement this in a way that all other apps can access their disk. This way other apps can write or read to DataCase. Not sure if Apple will allow that or not.
Can’t wait for launch…
This looks cool, but I dont see the point. Ok so I have some files I put them on my iphone, all good. But now what? If I wanna put them on another computer do i need to install software on that one too? or can it function just like a usb thumb drive? If so awsome
Yeah it should work as a thumb drive. That will be cool.
As previously mentioned FileMagnet does this already, and for me, has worked very well.
As for most other iPhone apps sitting unused, a few that I think are going to get alot of use: TruPhone (VOIP over WiFi — use your iPhone is areas of weak cell signal strength if WiFi OK); AIM (iChat would be better); iWant (great UI for location based search); DialZero (get-a-human for iPhone)
FileMagnet ONLY works with a Mac. Us Windows people are counting the seconds until this thing is released!
To the best of my knowledge, Filemagnet only works with Mac and requires the installation of a client.
Datacase works on PC (and linux too), and does not require the installation of a client program, indeed it doesn’t apparently even require a physical connection. This essentially turns the iPhone into a wireless thumb USB drive. Which along with copy/paste is a highly needed and much lusted after feature, for me at least.
I agree that a Datacase API for other developers to access the files would be a fantastic addition.
There’s a part of me too that thinks that a lot of the iPhone Apps are useless. But as your example of daily use of “phonesaber” illustrates - one man’s useless is another man’s essential. Perhaps we should not be so judgmental and let the market decide what is and is not a useful App.
Nice. But I prefer cloud computing, less file redundancy and more security. An auto update and encryption features will help.
I will definitely buy this one when it comes out….
It’s already the 28th of July, but this application is still not available. Anyone know whats up?
I agree that are many applications that I downloaded to try and then have ended up not using. But there are those few that get used on a daily basis. This seems like it could join those few applications and be one that gets used often. I’m really excited for this to make its debut in the app store!
cool iphone apps, it will make me use iphone more easily!
It’s live in the app store.
Wow, check out the reviews in the app store! I agree completely, apps like this are basically the reason the store exists.
The other day I bought DataCase and figured the volumes are not displayed on Finder ( or Path Finder ) after quitting DataCase on my Tiger. Therefore, I made a workflow to resolve the issue because I do not like the situation and cannot wait for the developers to fix it.
If you also cannot wait, go to the following URL and get the workflow I have just made.
http://www.loungecreek.com/mount_file_server/
I downloaded this yesterday for use on a PC and have been unable to link it to the computer. I receive FTP error messages re a proxy issue. Datacases’s support has been subpar.