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ZoomIt puts an SD Card slot on the iPhone

by Julian Prokaza on Thursday 11 February 2010 Comment

The availability of clumsy memory card adapters for the imminent iPad suggests that Apple is aware that not everyone wants to buy a computer just so that they can use another computer. Whether or not those same adapters will work with the iPhone is unclear, but ZoomMediaPlus has clearly spied an opportunity to offer the same option.

ZoomMediaPlus new ZoomIt is an iPhone memory card reader gadget much like the iPad’s and, when plugged into an iPhone’s Dock connector, provides an a slot for “any type/density” of SD Card.

Since there’s no native support for such a device in the current iPhone OS 3.1, ZoomIt requires a free third-party file manager app. This can be used to display and stream photo, music, video, and document files directly from the card, or files can be copied back and forth. At least that’s what the press release (PDF) says…

There’s precious little other information to go on at moment and we’re more than a little curious to learn how the ZoomIt can shift files back and forth — iPhone OS 3.1 has no user-accessible file system, so the file manager app must interrogate the appropriate folders and present them in a meaningful way.

In fact that’s just what the app screenshots suggest — ZoomIt 1.2 is already available in the iTunes App Store (ZoomMediaPlus s clearly being sensible and planning ahead), but it does nothing unless the ZoomIt adapter is connected.

The ZoomIt is available for pre-order now for $60 (around £40) and will start to ship in April.

[ ZoomIt via The Apple Blog]

Originally published on www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk, now incorporated into Broadband Genie

 

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