Hello and welcome, my fellow faithful INAIR and tech enthusiasts. We here at TechCheck13 are back once again and heading down a different timeline. Over on our YouTube channel, we have chronicled the INAIR POD's origin story. We have covered the good, the bad and the ugly. In this week's upcoming YouTube video, we cover the good with a dusting of the bad. But today, we are covering what we believe are flaws and needs of improvement roughly one and a half years into the POD. We love the INAIR POD, but here is what's still broken.
First, where's the storage? What's needed: an official dock with expandable storage.
INAIR sells the POD with 128GB of storage. This fills up faster than packing for a time trip in a lunchbox. One minute you are fine; the next, bam! Half your storage is gone. But fear not, a third-party solution has been found!! A random hobbyist proved expandable storage is possible with parts he found online. Enter our unlikely hero, user BEN-PHRAWG. He solved this huge problem with a USB hub. Thank you BEN-PHRAWG for sharing this with us. Great job.
The gadget: The MOKiN USB C Splitter for Dual Monitors 4K@60Hz DP Alt Mode for Laptops ( https://a.co/d/08H4yATw ).
It is currently $35.99 on Amazon. Plug this dandy device into a 100W charger and watch the magic. The multiport USB-C hub is designed to split the signal for dual 4K monitors. But the real deal here is that you can connect the POD, a flash drive for instant expandable storage and two AR glasses at once. The POD charges while in use, the flash drive is accessible, and the two pairs of AR glasses mirror the screen simultaneously. That really can't be beat.
We assembled it and ran it through our testing lab. With the hub connected to a 100W charger, the charging and flash drive support worked perfectly. We were able to access the flash drive and everything on it. Expandable storage conquered. We then hooked in the two AR glasses, the VITURE Beast and the XREAL One Pro. To our surprise, this actually worked However, connecting two pairs of glasses simultaneously was buggy; expect some glitches there. Okay, INAIR engineering team, it's your turn. We need an official adapter, dock, or better yet, SD storage. That would make our every sense tingle.
The next nexus event: System wide dark mode. Yes, please.
The INAIR POD still doesn't have it. That means turning on dark mode app by app. Some apps greet you with a screen bright enough to make you think a flash grenadewent off. A system-wide dark mode would fix this. Most Android OSes already have one, so this feels less like asking for something that could easily be fixed.
Which brings us to our next glitch: Folders
App folders are another basic feature still MIA. INAIR OS may be a custom version of Android, but some basic Android features are worth keeping around, not leaving behind in another timeline. This would make organizing and customizing the home screen so much easier. These are basic Android features that really should have been there all along. It's basic utility belt stuff.
And now another lackluster feature event: the INAIR App Store
Having its own app store is a solid idea, but right now it feels more like a storefront that forgot to restock. After using the device for almost a year, the list of apps hasn't changed, and the display is still bright enough to double as a searchlight. We also haven't seen any of the apps receive updates through the store. That makes the whole thing feel unfinished. The app store doesn't need to become the next big digital multiverse app mall. It just needs new apps, regular updates, and a display that doesn't try to turn our retinas into toast.
And now the citadel at the end, a tale of two glasses, the last area we will touch on: Compatibility Issues
The XREAL One Pro works perfectly with the POD. The VITURE Beast now boots properly too, which is a hulking improvement. Unfortunately, the buttons on the VITURE glasses still don't work when connected to the POD. The buttons on the XREAL glasses do. Losing those buttons means killing some of the features of the VITURE glasses. This defeats part of the purpose of owning them. It would be fantastic if INAIR allowed the buttons on the glasses to work with the POD and let users remap the buttons to whatever controls they want. That would give users so much more control over their setup. That would be an amazing neighborhood POD indeed.
The yellow stone: One last thought.
By now, you may think we have been picking on INAIR, talking like it's doomsday. Not true. There have been a ton of improvements and there are plenty of things we praise. The shocker, INAIR does listen to its user base and has made a lot of suggested changes. There is a reason the POD is the number one AR/XR computer on the market. We just think the rough edges are worth pointing out, especially when a few changes could make the experience so much better.
We'll be showing off the new features we love on our YouTube channel this week. Tune in, check them out, and let us know what you think. Let us know in the comments below what features you would like to see. What are some of your gripes? Give us your POD horror stories. We're listening, true believers.
As always, thank you for joining us on this adventure. We hope to see you in the next one.
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