Gigs of storage for everyone!

Smart and mobile devices might be laying siege to computer territory but one area in which they come up severely short is storage space If you have purchased a mobile computing device of late mdash be it tablet phablet or smartphone mdash it is a fair chance that you have ended up with storage space well short of the 100 GB mark In fact if you are on a tight budget it is very likely that your devicersquos onboard storage will be close to 16 GB which in some cases can be expanded using an SD card but even with this can at the most go up to about 64 GB Hardly enough to accommodate your HD video and music album collection not to mention the hundreds of photographs one takes these days Yes you can store your data on the cloud but then you do end up spending a fortune in bandwidth just uploading and downloading it Which is why portage solutions have been springing up to enable users to store and carry their data around with minimum fuss and minus a notebook Some of these are relatively passive and simply let you access the data you store on them And some like Seagatersquos Wireless Plus add a whole new spin to the concept of portable storage Very compact about 2 cm high and tipping the scales at around 256 grammes Seagatersquos Wireless Plus packs 1 TB of storage inside a frame that is small enough to be slipped into a coat packet or bag And it looks presentable enough with its brushed metal finish to sit comfortably in any part of the house But it is not its looks or portability or even its storage that are its real strength What really makes the Wireless Plus special is the fact that it can create a wireless hotspot to which you can connect your computers and Android and iOS devices and access information on it This is how it works you transfer your data music video documents photographs to the drive either over USB from your computer just as you would in any other portable hard drive by dragging and dropping the files you would need to install a free app in the case of Macs or by installing a free app on your iOS and Android devices Once you have got your information on the Wireless Plus you only need to switch it on and wait for the blue light to glow solidly indicating that it has created a WiFi hotspot Now to access the data you have saved on it simply connect to the WiFi hot spot No wires and whatrsquos more as many as eight devices can connect to it at one go and three can actually watch HD films off it So in essence you can just park about five hundred HD films on a single device or thousands of documents songs and pictures And access them from your phone tablet or computer over WiFi A neat touch is the fact that you can even connect to the Internet over WiFi on another connection while staying connected to the Wireless Plus And it comes with about 10 hours of battery life mdash it lasted around eight hours with our iPad iPhone 4S and Nexus connected to it All of which makes the Seagate Wireless Plus one of the best wireless storage options we have seen and a perfect option for those who would rather save the space on their devices for apps and the like Yes it has its shortcomings mdash connecting to the WiFi hotspot can be a pain sometimes the Android and iOS apps can at time lag not all video and audio formats are supported across all platforms and yes if you are using a BB or a Windows Phone device then this is nothing but a pricey box for you Speaking of price at Rs 16000 the Wireless Plus is definitely expensive but then it certainly beats carrying your videos and documents around on SD cards Seagate Wireless Plus 1 TB storage support for iOS Android and Windows USB 30 Rs 16000u00a0