Road trips can be overwhelming sometimes. They are long, fun, tiresome, and sometimes downright boring. That is why people like to carry their tablets, gaming consoles, kindles, and other modes of entertainment systems with them. But the other problem that travelers face is battery life and lack of storage space to carry your collection.
U+ is a new campaign on Kickstarter that aims to resolve these issues. In a nutshell, it offers a Wi-Fi powered hub with storage space, battery charger, and a multimedia support. There is an additional feature that allows you to connect the U+ to your smartphone's camera, this allows you take pictures and selfies and store it directly to the hub which can be accessed by one and all. U+ supports up to 5 devices at the same time.
Available Models
The U+ is available in 16 GB, 32 GB, 64 GB, and 128 GB storage space for the price tag of $59, $79, $99, and $119 respectively. Please note that these are early bird prices. So hurry before the offer expires or changes. You will have to reserve your spot by becoming a backer for the campaign.
How it works
U+ comes with supporting mobile app iOS and Android powered devices. So first thing you need to do is to download the app. After that you will need to connect to the U+ device. Now you are ready to excel your office files, stream music, watch movies such as Chappie, Blackhat, Transformers, Sicario, Bad Boys II, The Other Guys, and so on in high definition, and take selfies in the car (but selfies are not that impressive really). This is the perfect multimedia hub for the entire family. Perfect for kids, relatives, friends, and everybody else who owns a smartphone. U+ is a marvelous travel companion that is equally useful for personal and business purposes.
Features
Here are all the features this small little powerful device offers:
- 4,500 mAh powerbank to charge your devices through the dock connector
- The U+ can actively operate for up to 12 hours and 20 minutes standby time
- In order to access the data stored on the U+ via you iOS and Android powered smartphones or tablets, you do not need data connection. You can connect to the device via Wi-Fi. No network connection required.
- It comes with a powerful HD 1080p video decoder which helps in playing the video smoothly.
- Most of the major and widely used file formats are supported like MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, RMVB, and more.
- There is a built in functionality to easily take selfies and save and transfer data to and from your smartphone, tablet, and pc. It acts as a remote shutter for your smartphone for this.
- 5 different devices can connect to the U+ at the same time offering that many people the opportunity to kill road trip fatigue.
- U+ can be used by business professionals on the move for accessing and managing office files.
- U+ supports social media which allows you to share your photos on the social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
- U+ also allows you to change the names of the photos which makes it easy to search and find.
- U+ is powered by a Qualcomm central processing unit and Samsung's DDR2 RAM.
There is little to almost no buffer time when you are using U+ to stream those 1080p high definition movies. You can pause, play, rewind and fast forward very easily. You can easily move files around. It is extremely light considering the number of features it offers is at 130g. No, it does not weigh down your car! U+ is a perfect travel companion.