“Air Sharing turns your iPhone into a networked drive that can wirelessly transfer files to and from your computers, while also letting you view a wide variety of file types on your phone. At $6.99, it’s not cheap as iPhone apps go, but well worth the outlay,” Sean Portnoy reports for PC Magazine.
“Whether you want to read docs on your iPhone or let someone download files from it via a Web browser, Air Sharing has you covered. Upgrades to beef up its file-viewing features should be a priority to make this great download even better,” Portnoy reports.
Read the full review (Editor’s Choice, 4.5 out of 5 stars) here.
More info about Air Sharing via Apple’s iTunes App Store here.
I bought it, it works great.
Crippled out of the box, and you have to pay a dev 7 bucks to read and transfer files on your phone that other phones have included in it already.
Now let me hear it fanboys!
BUT IT’S NOT AN iPHONE!!!…….
It was even better when it was free….
Got it free when it was introduced. Works great, which is more than I can say for other filesharing offerings like “Briefcase” that seemingly refuse to work at all.
I never understand why some people that don’t like the iPhone spend so much time trying to convince other people that they shouldn’t like it too.
This is applicable in so many other arena too including politics & religion…
Datacase is much better. Supports Bonjour. Your iPhone shows up just like any other shared drive. Just drag and drop what you want to add and remove.
Probably the same reason why you try to convince people that the iPhone is great.
@why the iphone sucks…
Why do you?
Sounds like great way to help you cheat on your girlfriend!
I have this app… very handy. Would be nice if this was an out of box feature… but i got it free under the promo time… and knowing how handy it is now… 7 bucks is not bad. Ohh, and I use it on my iPod Touch, not an iPhone.
If I could legally have an iPhone on alltel, I would have an iPhone.
The Dude abides
It’s ok, but Files has better viewers built in and a nicer interface.
To hear someone who owns a $200 smartphone (and who pays $70.00 @ month for phone and data) WHINE (and I do mean WHINE like a 2 year old brat) about $7.00 is PATHETIC.
I mean seriously… didn’t your mommy give you enough for your allowance this week?
I’ve been using Filemagnet, I have had some issues with it when it comes to PDF’s. However, the layout of AirSharing looks almost identical to FileMagnet. Has anyone used both, so that they can offer a real time recommendation for either?
Thanks
for the same price, i prefer DataCase if you are using OSX. since DataCase supports AFP which is more convenient and has faster transfer speed…. but yea, Air Sharing was better when it was free
I had File Magnet and it had quite a few problems initially. It was terrible to have to reset your device to try and remove files once you no longer needed them. I think Air Sharing is far better. The only thing that I think needs improvement is xls docs. They seem really long to load.
To the troll insulting us iphone users… The only device that comes with the ability to store docs and things on it are a windows mobile device. BB can have them e-mailed to them and then you can look at them which the iphone can do just fine out of the box. If you truly believe your winmo device is great why are you trolling our site? Being in the closet about anything is wrong. No matter what it is!
I’ve been using Air Sharing for a while. It’s probably the best app in the App Store (well, next to Fieldrunners, but I hate Fieldrunners because it’s hard to quit and it makes me miss appointments; but I digress).
AFP is crap for a wireless device. Air Sharing’s WebDAV is much better suited for a connection that can be interrupted by a phone call or a trip to Google Maps or some other app.
And unlike DataCase and the other crappy apps like it, Air Sharing supports more file formats, including RTF and RTFD files, source code with syntax highlighting. And in its last update it added support for high-resolution images. It’s probably the only app for the iPhone that can do that.
Oh, and Jubei, Air Sharing uses Bonjour too.
“Crippled out of the box, and you have to pay a dev 7 bucks to read and transfer files on your phone that other phones have included in it already.”
Hey how does it work on other phones? In the recent factory introduction trip, we had 11 iPhone users, every one of them with Datacase app, we got bunch of (mostly) pdf files to share so that was easy with Bonjour. But the “smartphone” users…, were left behind to figure it out as we went out for lunch to the next building. Through the day I never saw them again, so I’m just wondering if it was done purposely, or is it really that hard to transfer those files.
Air Sharing is great BUT iStorage will allow you access to your iDisk!!! It’s not as easy to set up, but it works great too…
Jb
The problem with iPhone is that it doesn’t work well with WEP encryption. You must use other encryption. I downloaded AirSharing when it was free and it didn’t work until I switched from WEP to ASCII on my router.
I used Air Sharing and thought it was good.
I then got Briefcase and think it is better.
Nonsense. Air Sharing works great for me with WEP encryption. You probably had a firewall running, blocking that port.
I use Air Sharing every day. It’s awesome. I’ve tried all the other apps in its category too, but whenever I find a bug in one of those, and then go try it in Air Sharing, it works fine. I’ve never found a bug in Air Sharing that wasn’t also a bug in all the others.