Mobile media products company ZoomIt has served up a handy SD card reader for the iPhone and iPod touch.
Used in conjunction with the ZoomIt app, the dongle connects to your iPhone’s dock connector and lets you view and load photos and music (and any other file formats supported by the handset, like PDFs) stored on a SD card.
The dongle lets you extend the storage on your iPhone and backup up your files when you’re away from home, but we’re more excited at its potential as a photo editing tool.
Photo editing
With this app/dongle combo, we’ll be able to take photos off our dSLR camera, edit them on our iPhone using some of the superb editing apps like Photoshop.com and then upload it to our blog or on to Facebook – with no PC needed!
Funnily enough, we used to do just this with our trusty old Palm Treo 650 several years ago – that had a built-in SD card slot on the top of the phone, and we used to regularly upload pictures of our camera for editing and uploading.
The ZoomIt isn’t exactly small or cheap – it’s set to retail for $50 – but we can see how it might be a handy thing to drop in a camera bag. It’s billed as being available this April.
ZoomIt app features:
# copy or move files from the SD card to a local File Manager
# delete or rename a file in the local File Manger or in the SD card
# display/view a file with a format supported by SDK3.0
# interface to Photo Album to move/copy photos to/from SD card or local File Manager
# interface to iPhone Camera to snap a picture and store to local File Manager or to SD card
# interface to Email to share a file or photo
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this is great news..for me it removes possibly the last reasons I needed to take a laptop with me on some trips eg photos and backup/extra storage
BEWARE – this unit is very badly designed & transfers of photos takes ages. Read reviews on amazon.com and you’ll know what am talking about. It’s pretty much useless tbh. I thought I could use it to back up my pics from one card to another but was very wrong and am still looking for a device that is capable of doing it. For now internet caffees is my best bet while on the road.
thanks David