The Zune has wireless song sharing built in, but it comes with a three-playback restriction and--let's face it--most of the world has iPods. No worries: iPod sharing is coming in the form of a $100 gadget available later this month.
Coming at the end of January, miShare will make it easy to swap files between iPods
(Credit: miShare)I've seen previews of the upcoming miShare in Engadget and Gizmodo, but the device got some major publicity today in the form of a quick New York Times review. (The company is based in Brooklyn.)
The concept's simple: connect miShare to two iPods (it doesn't work with first- or second-generation iPods, nor with the Shuffle or Touch). Then set the switch to music, video, or photo, press the miShare's button, and it'll transfer the last-played audio or video file, or all the photos in a folder you pre-define, from the home iPod to the receiving one. You can also transfer entire On-The-Go playlists between the devices by holding the transfer button down for three seconds.
Minor drawbacks: getting the songs from the iPod back to your computer will be difficult unless you use a third-party add-on like MusicRescue. The transfer rate's about 500 KB per second, which means an album will take a couple minutes, and the device doesn't offer any trickery to get around Apple's FairPlay DRM scheme, meaning that most files bought from iTunes won't be playable after transfer.
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