Hello and welcome to the show!
My name is Alex and this is TechFlow.
Today, we've got a video for all of you iPhone users - you're going to absolutely love it.
And for all of the Android users out there, kick back and relax and just laugh because
you've had this for years.
Kingston, thank you for sorting this out for all of us iPhone users.
This is the Kingston Data Traveller Bolt.
Let's get in to it.
So, as all of you know, Kingston have been a massive sponsor of our channel TechFlow
over the last year or so.
We've reviewed so many of their products and we really like reviewing their products because
they're products kick ass and that doesn't stop here.
This is, essentially, expandable storage for your iPhone.
Now, this is one feature that I gave massive props to the Android ecosystem for and that
is expandable storage.
Being able to plug anything in to an Android phone whether is has a USB C port or a micro
USB port - you can plug in an external drive, the Android device will recognise it and it
is detachable storage - you can move things to and from the detachable storage and it's
just really, really simple.
That hasn't really been the case with iPhones up until now.
Now, as you can tell, this product is really simple and it has a really simple goal and
the unboxing experience of the product really reflects that.
Taking this thing out of the box, you are presented with a USB-stick like card which
has a USB 3 end and a lightning end and that's it.
Oh, also included is a rubber protector so that you can put this thing on your key ring.
Nice thought, Kingston.
Once you've got the thing unboxed, head over to the app store on your iPhone and download
the Bolt app from Kingston.
It's a really, really, really light weight app.
It downloaded in about ten seconds.
Once you've got the app downloaded, simply plug in the Bolt drive in to the lightning
port on the bottom of your iPhone or iPad, launch the app; it'll scan for the drive,
find the drive in about two seconds and off you go.
You're presented then with a few options.
Right at the top of the app, you have an awesome little interface which tells you the storage
left on your iPhone and the storage left on the Bolt device and it's really satisfying
to see the storage on the iPhone free up when you've moved over all of your videos on to
the Bolt drive.
From then on, you can transfer photos and videos to the Bolt drive, you can use the
app to capture photos and videos directly to the Bolt drive and then you can also view
what is on the Bolt drive.
There's also a little settings pane in the top corner and in there you can do some really
awesome things like set up automatic back-ups.
So, as soon as you plug in the Bolt drive and open up the Bolt app it will start to sync all of your photos.
You can also go ahead and put a password on the app and if you have a Touch ID enabled
iDevice, you can do that too.
In here is also the handy option to simply just format the Bolt drive if you want to
start again.
So, talking about the simplicity of this product, let's click on transfer.
And in there you can see that you can transfer all of the photos and videos from your device,
you can just transfer photos, you can just transfer videos, you can just transfer your
favourites or you can go in and manually select photos and videos to transfer over to the
drive - probably my favourite way of interfacing with it.
I can just go and select the videos I've recorded, it transfers them over to the drive, then
I can take the Bolt out of my phone, plug that in to my computer and there they are; I can
go ahead and copy them over.
This thing just appears as a USB pen as you plug it in to a computer, whether that be on Windows
or on Mac.
So you're probably thinking to yourself: Alex, I take a lot of video on my phone and then
when I've finished taking the video on my phone, I plug it straight in to my Mac, open
up Image Capture and drag it across - that simple.
I don't need this.
Well, let me kill two birds with one stone here.
The first bird is that, well, plugging an iPhone in to a Windows computer isn't as
easy, unfortunately, as using image transfer on a Mac.
Windows throws you loads of file bins and you have to search through all of the file
bins until you find your videos or photos that you'd like to transfer.
It's honestly a really cumbersome experience and I don't recommend that anybody do it.
The second bird here is the convenience value that this has.
This can sit on your key ring; it's always with you.
And if you're one of those people who has a low storage phone and you need to get those
videos off your phone quickly to free up some space, this, well, it's always there.
Piece of mind.
Clicking on the capture button in the app with the Bolt drive installed, it will open
up a camera pane as to which you can take full screen photos, square photos or even
video, straight to the Bolt device, without using your phone storage.
And then below that, the view button - pretty self-explanatory.
You click this and it shows you all of the files on the Bolt drive.
You can view them, you can send them - you can even transfer them back to the camera roll.
Now, I took this a step further - I plugged the Bolt drive in to the Mac Book and transferred
over an 88 minute 1080p film to the Bolt drive and then plugged the Bolt drive in to my phone
and successfully transferred that film to my camera roll, disconnected the Bolt drive;
the film is now in my camera roll on my phone.
I think guys that I can speak for all of us iPhone users as a whole and say that this
is solving a massive problem that all of us iPhone users have been really jealous of Android
users for, for the many years that Android devices have had this capability and been
able to plug in removable storage and transfer over files as simple as one, two, three.
This has been the Kingston Bolt.
We're giving a few of these away so check out the link in the description - we love
to give back to you guys.
Yes, this is amazing, and I love it because I'm an iPhone user - please respect that.
And Android users, you're lucky.
I know - you've had this for years; this is a really good feature.
Finally, Kingston have made this available for iPhone users.
Guys, my name's been Alex, this has been TechFlow and we'll catch you in the next one.