Review: SmarThumb - The World’s First Productivity Suite on a Portable Flash Drive!
Filed in: Gadgets, Reviews — August 4th, 2005
SmarThumb is a suite of personal productivity tools contained within an easy to use, plug-and-play, portable flash drive.
Design
When I first got this little USB flash drive, I was amazed by its design. I can’t believe that it is a “Made in Malaysia” product!
The SmarThumb size is small, only about 2 inch long. The 360 degree rotating silver metal cover is very nice. It covered the black color drive body nicely when closed. You never need to worry about losing USB flash drive’s cap anymore!
The only drawback about the design is that it easily leave your fingerprint on the metal cover.
Softwares
When you launch SmarThumb, it opens a window on top right corner that contains shortcut to build-in softwares(depends on your model). The window can be minimize to tray when not in used. However, I wish it hide the taskbar button as well when opened.
The great thing about SmarThumb is that it bundled with many softwares on the flash drive. Range from engineering to photo album.
Here are few software highlights:
- Stick-It Notes — place a note on your desktop.
- My Favorites — inport/export bookmarks(currently IE only).
- My Mail — check your emails anywhere, bring your emails everywhere.
- My Zip — compress and save file size on the flash drive.
- My Encoder — secure your private and sensitive data.
- My Lock — use SmarThumb as the key for your computer to lock it completely!
- My Eraser — erase your tracks left on the computer, protect your privacy.
Check out more SmarThumb softwares.
Space taken?
I was wondering how much space left for file storage needs? I thought the softwares will taken up most of the space. I was wrong. With dozen of softwares in the SmarThumb, it still left over 200MB free space. 
Who will need it?
You will need a SmarThumb if you share computer with others or like to travel with light luggage(less few KB weight of notebook).
SmarThumb is a good solution for non-IT company that not every staff required to own a computer. With SmarThumb, few staffs can share a computer, yet each can keeps own data. This will save alot cost, in both computer hardware and softwares.
Price: RM165(256MB & full softwares) / RM215(512MB & full softwares)
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