Turns Your Phone into Thumb Drive

Since it is usually exhausting to search out a USB stick after you would like one, Bump thinks your phone ought to become your universal thumb drive.

Starting these days, Bump, whose app enabling  2 folks to swap photos and phone details just by bumping phones along has been downloaded quite a hundred twenty five million times, is creating it attainable to quickly and simply move files between iPhones or robot phones and any pc -- in either direction. Last May, Bump intercalary a feature property folks send photos from their iPhone or robot device to their pc. however the group action might go just one method and was restricted to photos. currently Bump is creating it attainable for the transfer to travel each directions, and to incorporate any quite file -- or perhaps multiple files -- as long because the total is smaller then thirty megabytes. What makes the new feature notably fascinating is that there's no setup concerned, on the far side downloading the newest version of the Bump app. "Everything you'll be able to bump between phones currently conjointly

works each to and from any pc within the world," Bump corporate executive Dave Lieb aforesaid during a web log post these days. "Photos, videos, contacts, files...everything. there isn't any setup in the least -- simply head to http://bu.mp on your pc, open Bump on your phone, bump the spacebar key and therefore the files you chose on your phone can instantly seem on your pc. Bump is currently your unlimited USB flash drive that's perpetually with you!" the concept, Lieb told CNET, is to assist folks pass though their worry that transferring files from their phone to their pc, or contrariwise, will not work -- or that syncing can somehow fail. With the newest version of the Bump app, the corporate is card-playing that folks are going to be able to overcome those fears and begin moving files with very little hassle.  This feature is additionally concerning giving Bump users some worth, even once they are alone. historically, the app has been concerning 2 folks -- each of whom have the app on their phone -- swapping contacts or photos. And whereas several ample folks have downloaded the app, it hasn't been helpful for folks unless another Bump user was around. currently the corporate is hoping that it will convert an outsized variety of individuals to use the app whenever or where they're, no matter whether or not another Bump user is near .

And whereas the thirty MB limit is actually smaller than most thumb drives, Lieb aforesaid it's attainable that at some purpose within the future, Bump might enable larger transfers, doubtless as AN in-app purchase. however he aforesaid that won't at the highest of the company's priority list.