Reviewed by Alison
What we love…
the ease of use with this product, I was able to take it out of the box and start loading videos, movies and photos on it within moments. Compatibility with multiple devices across platforms such as Apple, Android, Mac and Windows as well as our Blu-Ray player.
What we’d love to see…
the ability to access regular wireless at the same time as using the Airstash. It would also be nice to have an alternative way of charging just in case you are not near a device with a traditional USB port.
Summary
If you need to add space to all of your devices, check out this handy solution from Maxell. You won’t be sorry!
Our Rating
If you are anything like I am, you have more apps than space on your devices. I recently found out a great solution called Airstash A02 from Wearable and Maxell. This handy little device uses SD camera cards and wireless technology to make all of your device memories larger. Instead of facing the dreaded message when you try to load the latest app on your devices, you can load it onto the Airstash and play it back. I have successfully loaded movies, photos, music and apps onto the device and have been able to play them back wirelessly via my device. You can learn more about the device including technical specifications the types of files it will hold and devices it is compatible with to ensure yours will work. You can also read a press release we published about this product when I first got it to try out!
The device was very easy to use straight out of the box, I just inserted a blank camera card and plugged it into a USB drive on my computer and was able to start dragging over files and using it within 15 minutes. I did run into a challenge or two and contacted Maxell Customer Support via telephone and had a very positive support experience with a North American based customer service representative to help me out with my questions. They also have an online knowledge base as well as the ability to send an email to technical support or visit an online knowledge base with additional questions if calling is not convenient or you are outside of the United States. I also loved the versatility as I am able to take photos using my digital camera, and pull the card out, load it in the airstash and within moments pull it up on the bigger screen of my iPad or laptop to ensure I got the right photograph. A fully charged AirStash lasted me about six hours each charge, and was easily charged via a USB port, it would be nice if there was an alternative way to charge it just in case you are not near a USB port. I also loved that I could use it with my iPhone and iPad as well as my husband’s Android smartphone with the same media inside! Once you had content loaded, you opened up the Airstash App on your device and were immediately able to start accessing files and items loaded onto the device. When one flash memory card became full, I just created another. We made cards for specific items like photos, items for our son and items for ourselves which allowed for easy swapping out depending on who was using the AirStash.
The biggest con of this device is that if you have its own internal wireless turned on, you have to turn off all other wireless access which means you can’t get emails, surf the internet, or anything else that requires a wireless connection while the Airstash is connected. They are working to fix this in an upcoming update of the firmware.
If you need to add space to all of your devices, check out this handy solution from Maxell. We really enjoy using ours and it has made it much easier for me to have movies, new apps and photos on the go.
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AirStash+by Wearable Inc.Category: Productivity, Entertainment Requirements: Compatible with all Size: 3.16 MB |
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You can buy your own AirStash from Amazon or a variety of other retailers.
Giveaway
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Alison
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Alison, Amanda, Grace and Mary are four mothers from different parts of the world dedicated to educating parents about the best digital stories, educational apps, fun games and technology products available for their children. We also offer the latest news in apps for kids, interesting articles, developer interviews, free apps and regular giveaways!
If you update the firmware on the device you can access the Internet AND the airstash at the same time. I’ve been doing so for about a month now without an problems so I can browse the web at the same time as use the Airstash.
You can also use, if you have an iPad, the wall charger for that by pulling out the lead from the plug and inserting the airstash into it. If you switch off the airstash then switch it on again and hold the on button whilst you insert it into the charger, you can carry on using it whilst it is charging.
Am in the US. My sons apps takes up all the space on the family iPad LOL!
My son’s apps take up most of the space. I live in the USA.
my daughter’s apps for sure, usa!
My daughters communication apps take up the majority of space on our iPad!
Games take up most of the space on my device with music as a close 2nd! I live in the us.
Movies USA
Interactive book apps and AAC/speech apps take up most of the room on my iPad. I’m in the US.
Photos (3,200 of them) and apps (1,421 and growing) – of course I’ve never been able to have them all on my device at once. I long for the day when I can have all my apps, sorted into folders and useable on my device without having to synch to access the ones I want whenever/wherever I want. ;) I’m in Australia.
USA. My son’s speech apps take up a lot of space and I often have to take some of his favorite apps off to accommodate new apps. It takes hours to constantly rotate apps for him – this device would make life so much easier!
I was just wondering if they made something like this so that I could put it on my Christmas wish list. You made my day!!!
Oops, didn’t see the questions to answer. Articulation apps take up the most space on my device and I am from the United States.
Lisa Maislin
What a greatvwaybto make room for more!!
U.S. Apps for deaf and hard of hearing take up most of my iPad(s).
I am from the US. My devices are loaded with apps of course… I am appdicted! Although I must admit my phone is pretty full of pics and videos of my son as he just loves to look at them and recall our times together.. it is so sweet I cant bear to remove them.
What takes up the most space for me are the apps of course and pics, I live in Costa Rica.
I have over 800 apps for three very different children… I really need one of these to make sure that each and every one of them has what they need. I live in Israel.
USA……apps take up most of the space with some music and pics too. Injini is the favorited app that takes up the most space, but is well worth the space!
The most space consuming item on my phone is easily the photos. From Sweden.
Most space is taken up by Apps for me and my two daughters. From Holland
I live in the USA. My two year olds apps take all of my space….lol That’s pretty sad…haha
I keep getting that error message that I cannot update apps because I don’t have enough memory… I NEED THIS!
Wow.. that would solve a lot of issues.. I have no space ever and always have to delete several apps pics etc.. just to add anything to my device. This is the bomb!
I am in the US and aac apps take up the most space for us. This would seriously rock!
Usa Here and kids educational apps take up most of my space here.
I live in the USA. My daughter’s interactive books and educational apps take up the most space.
I am from Australia.
The thing that takes up the most space that I am not willing to remove is the books that my children love especially Magic Town and Sesame Street books. Then there are the games – I think I need two iPads, one for me and all my apps and one just for the kids games and books. :D
Educational apps take up the most space ( I am a parent and SLP) but videos are a close second. I live in the USA.
Livr in USA. Kids apps took up most of the space in my iPad. Would love to add more learning apps.
photos take up the most space and then my husbands sports apps
I’m from the USA. My daughters photos and videos take up the most space on my (99% her) device. This product looks great!
I’m from the USA. Educational apps take up the most space on the iPad!!
My speech apps take up the most space on my device. I live in the US.
The apps that I use to conduct speech therapy sessions take up the most space on my iPad. I am constantly having to delete apps to make room for others. I live in the USA.
Kids apps! Usa
I have mainly educational apps….various autism related help.
I’m from the US, and my apps, definitely take up the most space on my iPad–especially the social language apps–probably due to the heavy video required in them.
Apps for my daughter take up most of the memory on our iPad. I live in the US.
Apps for my Speech students….there are soooo many!
I am from the US…see prior comment.
All of my apps and books for my students and our class photos take up all the space on my iPad.
I accidentally hit publish. I’m from the US.
Love the idea of air stash
Have an 8 gb iPod that has no room!
I am from the us and the operating system and communication spps
I’ m from USA. My speech therapy apps take up most of the room on my iPad!
Educational apps , US
Language apps , i am from india
My work apps take up the most space – I have a huge variety that I use with kids and also to demo them to parents. I’m from Canada
Educational Apps for my kids. US
pictures I use to customize for my son and apps for my daughter and videos…USA
Pictures and speech apps take up the most room for us. We live in the USA. Thanks for the chance to win this!
Educational apps take up the most room on my iPad. I am from the USA.
I am from the USA, my son’s AAC app and the speech EZ sound cards take up the most space and all the books the kids have on it :)
Australia, ebooks and educational apps
On my phone it would be music, on my son’s iPad it would be educational and speech therapy apps! We live in Australia
I am from Australia. My favourite movies take up most of my space
I live in the USA. Storybook apps take up the most space on my iPad. Thank you for this giveaway!
Pictures take up all my space!! currently only have 57 MB of free space left on my pc! :O i’m in the USA
The apps I use with my students take up the most space. I live in the United States.
I’m from australia and I’ve had to delete a lot of my fun games and complex book apps because they are too large for me to fit anymore – i have over 600 apps trying to fit onto 32gb and it doesnt quite work!!
I am in Australia and my sons Apps for Language development and my daughter movies eat the most memory!
I’m an SLP in Canada [Nova Scotia] and I have a lot of SLP apps and games for my students and they take up a lot of room and memory to run. I have over 800 on a 64gig….Oh dear!
I am from the U.S. and apps take up the most space.
I am from the U.S. and apps take the most space.
From the Us. Educational apps take up all the space!
I am from Canada and my kids apps take up the most space.
My apps and pictures take up the most space. I’m from the US.
I’m in the US. Apps for my kindergarten students take up the most space on my iPad.
Photos take up the most room. I live in MS in the USA
Ashpalt 6 game is video heavy gig. USA.
USA Videos
I am from Ireland and movies use up a ton of space on my device
I’m from Ireland , and apps take up most space on my device … This would be great to have as a travel companion , we could change apps or movies on the device without needing the laptop , great idea!
United States. Photos and videos take up the most space.
i live in the usa and pictures takes all my space
I have way too much of everything, photos and apps are the worst culprits, I live in Ireland.
I would love to try this product. Apps and photos take up the most memory on my ipad. I am in the USA.
from Australia and this would be great fr all the iDevices in the family
I am from the U.S. apps take up the most space