So you’re at your friend’s wedding, happily snapping pictures and candid memories on your new LG G4 with the very nice camera. After the wedding, your friend asks if she could have a copy of your pictures, as their photographer forgot to take candid shots of the guests – and you have a lot of those, hundreds of photographs. Aside from remembering not to hire this particular wedding photographer, what do you do? How do you quickly and securely transfer hundreds of high resolution photos to your friend’s phone, which is unfortunately an iPhone 6? BitTorrent thinks it has the answer to these situations with the BitTorrent Shoot app.


To tell you honestly, nobody really panics when in a situation like we described above. All you really need is a good data cable, or a microSD card reader and a laptop or desktop and you’re good to go with transferring the files. And if the person asking is your friend, you wouldn’t really mind the wait time, would you? But BitTorrent designed the Shoot app for this specific task – which is transferring files between devices, regardless of the format.

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The app uses the same engine as BitTorrent Sync, the outfit’s file service that lets you share directly between devices without using the cloud. That may sound a bit impressive, but situationally, you would have to think of what this really adds to your daily processes. Erik Pounds, BitTorrent Sync’s VP of product management, says that they based the idea of the app around “spontaneity.” “You could be at a concert with friends, recording a video; on vacation with your family, taking tens/hundreds of pictures; maybe at a birthday dinner, capturing a group serenade” and suddenly need to transfer a large amount of data.

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For this service, BitTorrent gives you the first three transfers made on the new app free. Then you will be asked to pay USD$1.99 to continue using the app. Frankly, I don’t see this app being a big hit with a lot of people. They might be hitting a specific need, but it’s not like there aren’t any solutions to the problem either. And most of those solutions are free, requiring only a bit of patience until you get to a laptop or desktop computer.

SOURCE: BitTorrent

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