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Justin Herrick
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Prior to cloud storage, flash drives were a very popular tool to store files of all types. Lenovo wants to bring back the simplicity of flash drives while adding in extra capabilities. The company’s new Link is a USB flash drive (with 32GB of storage) that has its own USB 3.0 port opposite of the connector. It’s there so that you can connect a phone to a computer and mirror on-screen content to the bigger display. From there, you can fully control the phone from the computer. And virtually no features are left behind.
We’ve seen similar strategies used by Microsoft with its Display Dock and Windows’ Contnuum; however, those are a lot more robust. Those actually transform devices into full computers while Lenovo’s Link keeps things to mirroring.
The Lenovo Link will be priced at $40 when it goes on sale starting in March. To use it, you’ll need an Android device running at least Android 5.0 and a computer with Windows 7 and above.
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