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Corsair Raptor k40 keyboard and m/45 Mouse are designed to provide best-in-class features and performance for gaming click now to learn more the Kingston MobileLite Wireless is a multi-purpose device it's a wireless video streamer so it's designed to stream to portable devices like phones and tablets it is a wireless card reader so it has an SD card reader as well as a wireless USB reader for aforementioned mobile devices and finally it is a backup battery although I really feel the first two are the ones where it really shows its strength whereas that third one it's not a strong point for it it has an 1850 milliamp hour battery for both itself or its own functionality and to charge an attached device so it's more like something you'd use an emergency as opposed to something where you'd have your phone tethered to it while you wirelessly stream something to yourself and expect to sit and watch movies like that overall the device is a little bit on the larger side than I would have liked it but it still feels quite light and whether that to you is more like it like an oh it feels kind of cheap or whether you prefer to have things be lightweight III like it when things have a little bit of heft to them but the good news is that my initial impression of how it feels kind of light and inexpensive was correct it is relatively inexpensive for 50 bucks kingston is giving you a platform with which to use your own storage in order to stream things wirelessly as opposed to most of the devices like this on the market that includes storage and are therefore much more expensive so you can just use existing USB drives and SD cards that you have lying around which is definitely a plus also my experience continued to be positive once I fired up the app download so you can see I've got it running on a variety of platforms here everything from an iOS tablet down to a couple of Android smartphones and the ratings of the app in addition to my experience seemed to reinforce that overall it's pretty darn good it doesn't have a lot of functionality and many of the mediocre ratings for the app are less to do with it didn't work it sucks and more to do with here's some great stuff Kingston could add in order to make it better which i think is is actually a very positive indicator of the direction that they're going with its stability first and then trying to add more features a lot of these Wireless streamers just flat out don't we very well the easy set-up guide within the app is a little bit verbose it's a little bit text heavy not as visual as I'd like but it covers all the basic stuff like connecting to the MobileLite Wireless through Wi-Fi how to secure the connection and then how to set up internet pass-through so the all three of these devices have internet connections and they're streaming 1080p media from this thing at the same time the app could definitely be prettier particularly on the Android side but the functionality is rock-solid and I didn't have to waste any time fighting with it to get it to work so I think this is actually the first time that I've seen an app that really feels more mature and more solid on Android than it does on iOS and a kudos to Kingston for spending the time on the dominant plat what is now the dominant platform to make it actually work correctly so often I see the iOS app is awesome and the Android one is kind of like Frankenstein's together and even seeing both of them at parity is not as common as I'd like but in this case I really felt the Android one was quite strong even though the iOS one did look a little bit better I mean to be clear guys the iOS app is fine it's functional but it doesn't have the same the same number of features and part of this is is just iOS has Fault in the first place so for example the ability to directly copy files back and forth wherever you need within the directory structure on the device is something that the Android app can do but the iOS one can't and something that I wouldn't mind seeing added to the iOS one is the ability to use a third-party player so on the Android one I can use just the included player I can use BS player I can use whatever I want so that I get great file compatibility whereas on the iOS one it basically just isn't even detecting the media file types that it's done that it doesn't support so that was that was a bit of an issue for me with the iOS one I did test with up to three devices streaming 1080p but these are reasonably low bitrate files like they're not like crazy uncompressed or anything like that and there were no issues at a range that I'd consider to be reasonable so anywhere within sort of 10 or 15 feet typically this is something I'd use for traveling in the car on a plane or something like that so you wouldn't be tremendously far away from it one cool thing is that it does allow both the USB port and the SD card slot to be used at the same time so you can pack some serious storage punch if you want to all you do is use the app to select which one you're interested in browsing and you can browse the local storage on the device or built within the app on the iOS version as well Kingston does have a one terabyte USB drive and then you could throw up to a 256 gig SD card in there for a massive amount of storage in fact I've even seen people using them with USB hard drives if you have a pigtailed connector and then you use another USB connector for power and plug that into a portable battery bank or something like that so there's a ton of flexibility here and I think overall my takeaway from this review is that it's great to see how much these devices have matured since the early attempts like the expensive and unsuccessful Y Drive they still don't really make any sense at home since there are much better solutions like air video and Amit for streaming when you have anytime you have a data connection like from your home PC across Wi-Fi or even on someone else's Wi-Fi but for traveling particularly on planes these things are a godsend the MobileLite definitely gets a green light from me at under 50 bucks and I think it is a very very smart buy I guess I didn't really talk about it physically much so it's got a USB charging port to charge the internal battery a USB port for the USB you know drive and then it has an SD card slot I guess there's not really a whole lot to say power button so you hold that to turn it on thank you for checking out my overview review whatever you want to call it of the MobileLite Wireless from Kingston and don't forget to like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment in the Linus tech tips forums I'm gonna have a link to the thread under the video if you don't want to brave the swamp that is the YouTube comments and as always guys don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos