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Sep292010
Universal Photo App: picTransfer for iPad
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 10:00AM | Glyn Evans Send Pictures to your iPad Wirelessly
App Store Description: The easiest, fastest way to transfer your iPhone/iPod Touch pictures to your iPad.
Transfer your pictures anywhere, anytime, without limits.
picTransfer for iPad takes full advantage of iOS 4.0 to:
- Send multiple pictures from your iPhone/iPod touch to your iPad
- Save the pictures on your iPad wirelessly over Wifi or bluetooth
How is picTransfer way better than the other transfer apps:
- No limitations on number of pictures sent. Want to send 200 pics at a time? Sure, picTransfer can handle it.
- picTransfer is not Wifi only. It is also bluetooth compatible. On the road, on a cruise... you can transfer your pictures anywhere you are.
- iOS4 multitasking compatible: you can check your emails, surf the web... while your pictures are being sent.
- Easy pairing system: no need to enter an address or anything to connect the devices. Connected devices are automatically detected.
- All in one: other apps have you go to the photo album first to do the selection, then back to the app to send the pictures. picTransfer does it all: connect to the other device, select pictures and send, all in one app.
- Universal binary: Buy only one time, and install on both iPad, and iPhone.
App Store Link: picTransfer for iPad; Price: £1.19/$1.99/€1.59
Reader Comments (18)
I use the Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit with my iPhone cable to do the same thing. The Apple Camera Kit does cost more than pIcTransfer but ... I can also use it with my Nikon or any other camera.
has anyone tried this app with bluetooth? I wonder about the transfer times with bluetooth.
I use the photo transfer app presently to transfer images between my mac, iPhone and iPad and have wondered about bluetooth. A knowledgeable friend explained that bluetooth really wasn't up to the task of transferring large files. I'm hoping that limitation has been "fixed"
Charles,
Bluetooth was designed for connecting low-bandwidth perfipheral devices - mice, keyboards, headset etc - to computers. It was not designed for moving files - much less large ones. There is no way to "fix" it.
Bought it.. works a treat
The Camera Connector Kit doesn't work with the iPhone 4, though. Major bummer there.
I use this app frequently and LOVE IT!
Says who? I have an iPad & a iPhone 4, and the Camera Connection Kit works perfectly
When I hook mine up, it says "this device is not supported for this iPhone."
OK thanks Khurt and Kristen. I thought it was a bandwidth issue. My question then is: does this app transfer full resolution images via bluetooth and if so how long does it take?
@ Not Ratched..
plug the Camera Kit into the iPad, not the iphone. Then plug the normal USB lead to the phone and pop the usb end into the Camera kit socket.
If you have the kit plugged into the iphone you will get an error, as its made for the ipad
I just sent a full res image to my iPad from iPhone via Bluetooth only and it took literally seconds.
I would not want to try loads of pics at once, but it works fine
Ok, scratch that.. it works, but the pics are slighty smaller. the pic I sent was 2.2mb, one that arrived on ipad was 777kb. :(
unless there is a setting I haven't found to change the resolution
^ update (sorry, folks)
The pic is smaller in size only. the screen dimensions are still full res. must be some compression going on?
Hi All,
I am the developer of this app.
- Bluetooth: The big advantage of picTransfer is the ability to transfer pictures on bluetooth. It works as good as wifi connection, just slightly slower. You can send as many pics at once as you want using bluetooth, and even in the background while doing something else, as picTransfer is compatible with iOS4 multitasking functionalities.
- Pic size: When transferring pictures from an iPhone to another device, whether you use email, iTunes, camera kit, or picTransfer... the picture has to be compressed in a JPG or PNG format. picTransfer uses a different compression setting as the camera kit, which explains the different size, but at the same resolution. The compression setting for picTransfer is comparable to most digital cameras, if you compare the picture size of a 5MP camera with the picture size out of picTransfer.
I hope that answers your questions!!
JP
Also, to clarify the capabilities of bluetooth:
Although bluetooth was not originally designed to transfer large files, the standard has improved over the years. iPhone and iPad are using Bluetooth 2.1, which has a bitrate of up to 2.1Mb/s. (300KB/s). That means a 700-800KB picture takes approximately 3 seconds to transfer.
However, not many apps have been able to use the full potential of Bluetooth to achieve the maximum throughput. That is where picTransfer excels.
Other apps that use bluetooth traditionally use the 'Gamekit' framework, provided by Apple for games to communicate over bluetooth. This framework is not optimized for large file transfers, and that results in slowdowns and frequent failures.
picTransfer is using its own network protocol to take full advantage of the Bluetooth connection.
Thanks for coming in and clearing that up, JP
Great app, highly recommended
I not sure why, but when I enable bluetooth on both iPad (FW3.2.2) as iPhone (3GS FW4.1) they start searching for other devices (are visible) but can't find each other.
Any idea how this works?
My iPhone is linked to a bluetooth headset before.
I have the app recently, mainly because I wanted to transfer a lot of pictures from my iPad and iPhone 4 (IOS 4.2.1) to my Macbook OS X 10.6.6, however I am not able to do it!
I could send from iPad to iPhone and vice versa but neither from iPhone nor from iPad to Mac.
I have tried both by wifi and bluetooth and iPad and iPhone can't find Mac.
Anyone experienced this problem and can give a help?
Thanks.
FC