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Beyond the Flash Drive
Top ways to transfer your information between gadgets.
March 10, 2011— -- A simple marriage of a compact storage technology and a nearly ubiquitous connector, USB flash drives long ago became heir to the floppy disk, a convenient way to move files between multiple computers.
Prices, which vary with capacity, buy you more capacity as time goes on.
According to NPD's Retail Tracking Service, the most popular capacity for a USB flash drive in 2010 was 4 gigabytes, which cost an average of $13. But low-capacity drives are so cheap that they are often given away as promotions.
But while the USB drive is simple and affordable, it has some limitations that are getting addressed by an array of products that bring creative spins on network and wireless capabilities to the familiar PC appendage.
Tazzle IT ($79.95) addresses a common issue of how difficult it can sometimes be to transfer information between a smartphone and a PC even when they are right next to each other, especially if you don't have a cable handy.
The slim half-height Bluetooth adapter makes it simple for you to view, transfer or print documents such as photos from a BlackBerry using a PC. Tazzle IT adds a couple of menu commands to BlackBerry applications that manage messages and photos.
Simply select what you want to send, and choose Tazzle IT from the application menu to send it to the PC using the adapter and running the software.
Once the PC and BlackBerry software is installed, Tazzle IT is easy to use, although you'll have to hunt among the BlackBerry's sometimes excessively long menus to find its features. Unfortunately, the product doesn't yet work with any other smartphones or with a Mac, and the speed of Bluetooth means that you may want to step up to a USB cable transfer for moving across lots of photos or long videos.
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