| SmarThumb 256MB USB Drive Review |
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| Written by Laptop News | |
| Tuesday, 07 February 2006 | |
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There are many companies out there making USB drives, while I was at the CES show, I came across the booth for SmarThumb. Curious as to what it was exactly, I started asking questions and ended up spending about 30 minutes talking with the reps from the company. The parent company is called Intranet Research, based in Malaysia, and they believe they have come up with a 'better', more useful, USB drive. After chatting for a while with them and exchanging info they gave me one of their SmarThumb USB drives to take home and review. The package states: “The World's 1st Productivity Suite on a Portable Flash Drive”. So let's check it out and compare to some others on the market.
 This drive is smarter than your average USB Drive...
"Not long ago I reviewed a USB Key that locks your PC and you needs the USB 'drive' to unlock it, it was nice and cool, but had no storage space. The SmarThumb takes all this one step further, it acts like a security dongle and can lock your PC, but it even goes further with the Encoder feature that encodes your files and they are only accessible with the SmarThumb. When security seems to be a major concern this function seems very welcome. The apps included are cool and only take up 47Mb on the SmarThumb drive, now seeing this is only a 256Mb USB drive that leaves a little bit of room for your files to be added. Personally I think that that is not that much room, and I would opt for getting a larger capacity drive, at least 512Mb. The 'My Mail' application can store up to 9 email accounts, just the email alone could easily fill the drive. If you want to add pictures then you will really run out of room fast." Direct Link: http://www.thinkcomputers.org/v2/index.php?x=reviews&id=336&page=1
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