Unicon MCopy: Mobile USB Command Center

January 24th, 2006

USB OTG bridges may not be the most interesting thing going on, but Unicon Systems is teaching the old dog some new tricks. Their new MCopy tries to become something like a mobile control center that allows you to manage images, music & data inside your USB devices.

In a nut shell, the MCopy can connect all kinds of USB devices from a camera to burner so you can do whatever you want with your files. There are 2 Hi-Speed USB connectors, 1 USB mini OTG as well as an internal SD card slot. USB hub is also supported so this thing can get quite powerful.

Say, you can rip MP3s straight from a USB CD-ROM into a USB hard drive through MCopy. Or you can import pics from a PictBridge camera, spice them up with your signature and audio commentaries, and finally distribute them to your friends' flash drives. Though, we aren't certain if burning them back to CDs or DVDs is possible. If not, a firmware update maybe able to bring this possibility to reality.

The 3.5" touch screen LCD, capable of displaying 262k color at QVGA, handles user-activities from preparing musical slideshows, cropping images, selecting files for transfer, and navigating around photo albums. The specs mentions "full-featured MP3 player". We assume one can just plug in a USB hard drive to the MCopy, and play the tunes across USB.

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