Mumbai: WD, a Western Digital company unveiled My Passport Wireless, an easy to use Wi-Fi enabled storage drive with USB 3.0 connection, which allows consumers to save, access and share stored content wirelessly with any smartphone, tablet, computer or other device.
“As we celebrate its 10th anniversary, the success of WD’s My Passport line of portable hard drives is unprecedented,” explains Jim Welsh, executive vice president, WD Content Solutions Business and worldwide sales. “Our new My Passport Wireless drive continues the evolution, resolving a common problem for today’s mobile consumer; too many devices with limited storage and no way to offload their content and free up space on-the-go. Now, consumers will have one drive to easily store content from all their devices and enjoy that content anywhere they go.”
The My Passport Wireless allows up to eight devices to connect at the same time. Available in 500GB, 1TB or 2TB models, users now have the ability to store and access up to hundreds of hours of movies and music, as well photos and other digital files, from their smartphones and tablets that are typically limited by minimal storage capacity.
The portable wireless drive features Wireless N with MIMO technology for enhanced wireless performance so that users can access and transfer files quickly, as well as stream up to four HD videos simultaneously. The built-in rechargeable battery provides up to six hours of continuous streaming and up to 20 hours of standby power making the drive a perfect travel companion.
WD My Cloud mobile app
With the My Passport Wireless drive users can access WD My Cloud mobile app for iOS or Android mobile devices. The WD My Cloud mobile app easily connects to a My Passport Wireless drive for simple product setup, and once setup, the mobile app provides navigation, sharing and playback of the drive’s content. The WD My Cloud app also helps unify all of a users’ content under a single app and user interface, by allowing access to content on the My Passport Wireless drive, the My Cloud family of personal cloud storage, and on major public cloud services such as Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive from just one app.
My Passport Wireless drive for smartphones, tablets and camera
In addition to mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, the portable wireless storage drive allows storage option for camera content with its integrated SD card slot. The built-in SD card slot lets users copy their content from the SD card to the My Passport Wireless drive. Additionally, with integrated FTP, the drive connects to compatible wireless cameras so that users can automatically transfer photos from their cameras to the drive as they are taking them.
Price and Availability
Pricing for My Passport Wireless is approximately Rs 11,000 for 500GB and approximately Rs 13,000 for 1TB and is expected to be available in India from the last week of October 2014. The WD My Cloud mobile app currently is available for download for free from the App Store and Google Play.
