This means many "ripped" video files will play without sound. Also, anyone with a trove of ill-gotten videos should be forewarned: the iXpand Drive mobile app doesn't support some popular sound encodings, such as DTS or AC3. First, it doesn't have its own battery (the old version does), and in my trial, while backing up my photos on the drive, my iPhone 6S' battery drained much faster - about 1 percent of battery life every 4 minutes. And in testing, the iXpand Drive app worked well for both data backup and media playback.īut the improvement ends there the new iXpand still has a few flaws. Thanks to its smaller design, the new iXpand Flash drive can also clip to an iPad without getting in the way too much. When connected to an iPhone or an iPad, you can use a free app, called iXpand Drive, to playback content stored on the drive - a wide variety of video, audio and document files - or back up the phone's photos and contacts.Īs a thumbdrive, the iXpand performed well in my testing with the sustained copy speed, via USB 3.0, of around 50MB/s for writing and around 90MB/s for reading, a huge improvement from just 11MB/s and 13MB/s, respectively, with the previous version. It's a thumbdrive that works with either a regular USB port on a computer, or a lighting port on an Apple mobile device. The new iXpand Flash Drive is the smaller and faster version of the clever iPhone/iPad accessory that came out in late 2014. The new iXpand Flash Drive from SanDisk Josh Miller/CNET
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