Nice Start for Fast BT Transfer of Photos – Bluetooth U Review

Summary: This could be one of the best BT transfer apps for photos with some further work in the areas noted below. My primary interest is to transfer with absolute minimum hassle sets of photos taken on my iPhone to my iPad. In a quick review of a few free apps to do this via BT, all have the same limitations. Assume you have set up to transfer iPhone -> iPad. * The iPad apps do not store the profiles of previously accepted iPhones … you have to reconnect every time after you disconnect. * The iPad apps give you no choice of which album to store the incoming photo … you store it in the Camera Roll and then have to go back to move it where you want it. * The iPhone apps munge the sorting order of the source albums … you may have to scroll through long album lists to find the one you want rather than having them pre-sorted (or better still … pre-filtered) by intelligent criteria beforehand. All of this being said, this app for BT photo transfer at least avoids some big pitfalls in other apps (which are reviewed elsewhere). Admittedly, I was hesitant at first with this app because it receives photos on the iPad first to its own internal storage location. Then you have to put them in the Camera Roll. However, I see the advantage now of doing this, because, in a pinch, you can rapidly transfer an entire set of photos from an iPhone to a receiving iPad and then do the file management later on that iPad as your time permits. This would be even better if he receiving iPad stored the profiles of accepted iPhones to allow immediate connections without needing to reconfirm at the iPad every time. Then, I could set up my iPad, turn on this app, and, as the need called, fire up the iPhone app to transfer files without having to walk back over to the iPad. The iPad version could also use some thought to better UI layout. The entire right half section of the screen is essentially locked just to show the connection device for the entire session while all manner of popups are used to display otherwise vital information.
Review by DrJJWMac on Bluetooth U.