Buffalo's Web Access hands-on: remote access from your iPhone

by Jacob Schulman, posted Jan 8th 2009 at 1:16PM

16 gigs ain't enough space for all those episodes of The Hills on your iPhone? Well, if you've got a Buffalo NAS such as the LinkStation Mini or Pro, you can now access all your files remotely on your OS X mobile device through an optimized web page straight from your device. The really nifty part is that you can stream MPEGs over 3G (and presumably EDGE, though we don't know why you'd want to) -- although it took around 60 seconds to buffer a TV show episode in the demo we got. The Buffalo rep we spoke with informed us that an actual app would be available in the App Store sometime this quarter, but if you're itching to catch up with LC and the gang, be sure to check out any one of the aforementioned devices that support the service and you could be streaming pronto.

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Filed under: Software, Misc

Tags: buffalo, CES, CES 2009, Ces2009, iphone, NAS, remote, streaming, Web Access 2.0, WebAccess2.0

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ihpsta @ Jan 8th 2009 1:44PM

Hmmm Orb?

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dvddesign @ Jan 8th 2009 3:35PM

Exactly.

Other than keeping Orb competitive, I don't know why everyone's going ga-ga over media server software for iPhones.

$10, plus the optional cost of buying a TV tuner card/thumbdrive ($60-100) gives you everything you get from a Slingbox, without any of the corporate sponsor mess littering up your software. OrbLive is simple, just a regular file manager style interface for both Live TV and stored media.

I'm glad this competition's out there though. It only helps. If Buffalo or Slingbox puts up a competent front end mac software driver for stored media, it'll make Orb get something more stable and feature packed out the door on OSX.

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