iPhone 6 Plus and Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader - Missed Opportunity?

Hi Nevada, yes it will affect battery life,but not too much as long as you are careful.

you can set the wifi to power down after a period of time if no wifi connection is made from your phone or other device.

I would suggest (and plan) to have the camera power down as normal for most of the time, and them when ready to download, set the camera to not power off.

But for sure it's going to use more battery than just plugging a card reader in.

i haven't used it out and about yet, I will be using it tomorrow so will be interesting to see how it performs.

Sorry for the delay in reporting back, I didn't get to use my camera as much as I thought I would, but my completely unscientific and subjective report is that the wifi card did not have any noticeable affect on battery life. Now my battery life is pretty good, so even if the card halved it, that would not be an issue for me, but after a day of admittedly fairly light use, my battery was still showing full, eg 3 bars (I only have 3,2 or 1 bars in the display, its not that nuanced :-)

I was worried I would hear this sucking sound and see the bars drop in real time, so, so far, so good, its not that bad :-)

There is also a capability to completely switch wifi off on the card (rather than the 1,3, 5 minute, maybe some more points,or no timeout, I had mine set to 3) but that may not be possible with my camera and I need to be careful, i dont want to switch it off and then find I cant switch it back on again :-) But if I can get that to work then the card wont use any extra battery at all except for an end of day transfer session.

One last thought, these cards are cheap, really you have little to lose by trying one I think I definitely got the right make now that Toshiba have updated their app to work with iOS 8. (FWIW I'm on 8.1)

That sounds very promising Tumbleweed666! Maybe that's the way to go. A 32 gig card hardly costs more than the camera kit itself...which is now a mostly redundant piece of hardware unless Apple finally changes their mind about this. I wrote to Tim Cook directly last week making a plea. Haven't heard back from him yet, strangely! <g>

I have also sent my feedback to apple today. There is really no reason why it shouldn't be possible to use the sd crad reader with an iPhone 6 plus...If this won't be enabled in the near future there is really no reason for me to keep the 6 plus.

Sandisk announced last week a USB Flash Drive (16GB, 32GB, 64GB) with a "Lightning" connector called iXpand.

If i understand well, Apple authorize a third party to use their own technology on a small device but don't let customers use an Apple device on an Apple Phone.

Can someone explain me?

PS: I already sent my feedback to Apple.

Valentine_13 wrote:

Sandisk announced last week a USB Flash Drive (16GB, 32GB, 64GB) with a "Lightning" connector called iXpand.

If i understand well, Apple authorize a third party to use their own technology on a small device but don't let customers use an Apple device on an Apple Phone.

Can someone explain me?

PS: I already sent my feedback to Apple.

The Sandisk devices require a dedicated app from Sandisk in order to work. I have one on the wireless Sandisk drives and like it but the requirement to go through an app really feels like a workaround. It's completely different than the CCK.

Nevada_Princess wrote:

App or no app...the fact that Apple is letting another vendor access the port at all while their own product does not is the issue. Sending another letter to Apple about this one! Mrrgph.

Actually, the app that allows this is at the heart of the issue, mainly because it's going to apparently act like a filter for the contents on the memory card. Without such a filter, there is the possibility of this being a pathway for malware to get on an iOS device.

Yes, Apple already has such a "filter" written into iOS's code, and the Photos app fully supports Apple's Lightning SD Card Reader. The issue is that Apple chose to disable that support for iPhones.

It's the same hardware on iPhones and iPads, same SoC, same Lightning port controller, everything. This is like Apple arbitrarily deciding to let 27" iMac users access their built-in SD Card readers while disabling support for any SD Card readers on 21.5" iMacs.

Originally I believed this was a crass attempt to upsell larger storage iPhones, but if so then why permit SanDisk to plug in flash drives to the Lightning port? Could this limitation really be nothing more than old-school incompetence? I'm at the point now where I'm more interested in discovering the reason for the limitation than I am in actually being able to read an SD Card with my iPhone!

This idea may have been present before, I have not read all the pages.

http://www.airstash.com/

AirStash is a wireless USB drive that uses SD memory cards to share

and stream data to compatible WiFi devices. AirStash is designed to

work with the following kinds of devices:

--USB USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatible hosts supporting the Mass Storage device class, using a USB port providing bus power.

--Memory SD memory cards from 2GB to 2TB are supported.

WiFi 802.11 b/g/n devices with compatible apps and/or HTML browsers

see:

http://support.airstash.com/entries/468236-Connect-Various-Apps-to-AirStash

questions:

-- does one of the supported apps do block transfer of all your photos?

-- Do the latest aireStash have the SD card slot -- didn't see in specs? Could always use an adopter.

Robert

So I was doing a Google search and found thishttp://www.miniinthebox.com/3-in-1-card-reader-for-ipad-mini-and-others_p544142. html?currency=USD&litb_from=paid_adwords_shopping&gclid=Cj0KEQiAneujBRDcvL6f5uyb hdABEiQA_ojMguHhO0Fki5BK1T5PetHfyEykVB8ZqXeuUOkQu4IyqFoaArGP8P8HAQ

Before I buy it I wanted to see if anyone else has tried it. It says it is for the Iphone 6 and 6+. I am leary about purchasing it but it really looks like what we are all looking for.