--- product_id: 48191626 title: "Verbatim 98243 MediaShare Wireless" brand: "verbatim" price: "SAR 6" currency: SAR in_stock: false reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/48191626-verbatim-98243-mediashare-wireless store_origin: SA region: Saudi Arabia --- # iOS & Android app support 5-7 hours battery life Secure password protection Verbatim 98243 MediaShare Wireless **Brand:** verbatim **Price:** SAR 6 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > πŸ“‘ Unlock your files wirelessly, securely, and stylishly. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Verbatim 98243 MediaShare Wireless by verbatim - **How much does it cost?** SAR 6 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.sa](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/48191626-verbatim-98243-mediashare-wireless) ## Best For - verbatim enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted verbatim brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Rock-Solid Security:** Password-protected wireless access keeps your files safe and your mind at ease. - β€’ **Power Through Your Day:** Up to 7 hours of continuous battery life means uninterrupted productivity wherever you are. - β€’ **Universal Compatibility:** Built-in USB and SD slots plus a dedicated mobile app for iOS and Android ensure effortless access. - β€’ **Smart Activity Indicators:** LED lights keep you informed of reading and writing activity, so you’re always in control. - β€’ **Wireless Freedom, Zero Hassle:** Seamlessly upload and download content without cables, perfect for on-the-go pros. ## Overview The Verbatim 98243 MediaShare Wireless is a compact, 2.5-inch solid-state network storage device featuring secure password-protected wireless access, a built-in USB port and SD memory slot, and a dedicated mobile app compatible with iOS 4.0+ and Android 2.2+. With up to 7 hours of battery life and LED activity indicators, it offers professional-grade convenience and security for seamless file sharing on the move. ## Description Buy Review: Excellent - This is a great little device. I bought it to use with my new phone- a Vodafone Smart ultra 6 running Android Lollipop 5.0.2. It hasn't taken me very long to get my head around how to use it and I have found it to be a little more capable than I was led to believe from both Verbatim's website and the reviews I have read before deciding to purchase. If I have any criticisms these are down to the Android app "Mediashare". From what I now know, if my experience is typical of what most people will find albeit with other phones, nobody should be put off buying one. The first thing to do is charge it fully. This took about an hour and a half using my phone's charger. The next thing is to switch it on after first connecting either an SD card or a suitable USB device (hard drive or memory stick (pen drive) and allow it a minute or two to establish its own wireless network then connect your phone to it. At this point you need to open apps. You can set a password to allow connection to the app but this isn't strictly necessary. I opened Mediashare and I soon found that if the phone screen times out, on going back in I get a prompt saying log in to the network. Follow that and it goes to a screen where you are offered the chance to set or input a password. If, instead you click on the top corner widget you get the option of either not using the network or using it AS IS. I chose the latter. Once you have done this you should find that it and all other apps will connect immediately- if not you will get a message saying it couldn't connect to Mediashare. It's a minor niggle that sometimes you have to let the screen time out in order to activate a connection to the app this way. What was really disappointing about the Mediashare app (I am using the January 2015 version) was that having navigated to the directory containing the film files I could choose from, on selecting one it should have offered me a choice of apps to open it with, instead I got a message saying there were no apps installed to open the files with- when I know damn well there are several! However, rather than uninstall the app I have left it on my phone as the options for changing various settings are contained within it and these work well enough- and they're not found on other apps. All was not lost by any means, as I had read other people's reviews which stated that ES File Manager works well with this device. I found this to be true. After installing ES File Manager (free from Google Play) I opened the app and my first task was to find out how to link it to the Mediashare device. There is a widget/ menu at the top left which opens to give you a huge list of options. I chose LAN. It was a case of entering the address 10.10.10.254. It then creates an icon which you click. This gives you a folder icon for either a card or USB device depending on what you have attached. From there you navigate to the file you want. You will find that if the file is compatible with ES File Manager's player (ES Player) it will offer you an option to use that otherwise the options you get depend on which player apps are present on your phone. I tend to have 3 different HD files on my media- MP4, M2TS and TS formats. ES Player loves MP4s. If you select M2Ts or TS files you will need something like VLC Player but even then there can be playback problems but fortunately I have found a way round this. Many of my MP4 files were created using my Hauppauge HD PVR2 and have a variable bitrate of 10MB/s. ES Player played these PERFECTLY when streamed by the Mediashare device. The very same file will stutter when using VLC for Android or something based on VLC so I tried an experiment: There have been quite a number of times when I converted an MP4 file (created by the HDPVR2 using Arcsoft Showbiz) to M2TS or TS format using Video to Video Converter because there appeared to be a timing issue preventing it from streaming to my TV using Nero Mediahome 4 (DLNA server). Doing this gave me a TV- compatible file of visual quality virtually identical to the original MP4. But I was now in a position where ES Player didn't like those files so the obvious thing was to convert them back to MP4. I chose the option to convert to H.264 MP4 on Video to Video. I noticed that when I did the original conversion to M2TS or TS from MP4 the file size and bitrate often decreased, and now I was getting a further bitrate reduction on converting back to MP4. To my delight I found the quality was just as good and best of all these MP4s ran perfectly on both ES Player and VLC!! The issue, therefore was that VLC is more sensitive to bitrate than ES Player and when cut enough, both work as well as the other. I have yet to try cutting an M2TS or TS bitrate as such and seeing if these will stream or not. Another thing worthy of note is that I have found that when using SDXC cards, although Verbatim's website says that the maximum capacity is 64GB, the 128MB Qumox SDXC cards work well, and also whereas Verbatim say that these should be formatted with ExFAT, they actually work just as well for me formatted with NTFS!! One other thing I found is that there is a Chromecast plugin available for ES Player. I installed it but found I couldn't cast from the Mediashare with it. Presumably this was because the Mediashare is on its own network and the Chromecast is on my own local router network. I did read somewhere that someone had succeeded in connecting them but have yet to explore this. In conclusion, hopefully my experiences as detailed here will help you enjoy the use of what is an excellent device. UPDATE 12/10/15: To my surprise the Mediashare app has suddenly started allowing me to select players from a list, as it should do. It's a mystery as to why it didn't do it in the first place, after all I haven't updated the app or even just reinstalled it. What I did note once it started working more correctly is that it will change the icon it displays if it knows which apps it can offer access to, but not if it doesn't know what apps the file type corresponds to. Thus, MP4's have one type of icon, but M2TS etc. have another. If you click on the latter it still says no app installed. However, this still doesn't explain why it is now telling me that it can offer options to play MP4s whereas previously it didn't, and MP4s were there from the start! Weird... The other thing I'm finding now is that as soon as I connect my phone to the Mediashare I'm not having to log in to its network in the manner I previously described, the Mediashare app seems much happier about it. ES file manager needs to log in but only needs a user name - admin and not a password, when going in via a saved network icon. Seems a lot easier now. UPDATE 24/10/15 Having played around in various ways I have made a few further discoveries which could help others get the best out of this device using their Android phone. Firstly, there is an easier way to get VLC media player to stop stuttering- on VLC for Android, go to Preferences, then Advanced and set Network caching Value to at least 600. I have it at 1400. I also have Hardware acceleration disabled. You should find your movies will now play smoothly- and not only will .mp4 stream but so should .ts and .m2ts movies- they certainly have done for me. The other thing I have found is that, if instead you use XBMC media player for Android (now called Kodi)- I installed the latest version (dated 20/10/15), this will play (stream) .mp4, .ts and .m2ts files AND also .iso dvd disc image files from the mediashare!! As previously, just connect the mediashare to your phone wirelessly and if necessary log in to the network as I have previously described.Trust me- it's been brilliant in my experience lately. XBMC played my usual file types without any stutter right from the beginning, no quibbles or questions asked. It didn't like Windows Media Videos though, so there is still a place for other players.There is one slight complication with XBMC- which is that it's not available via Google Play, but there are full instructions on what to do to install it given on pcadvisor.co.uk- easily found if you google for them. All that is otherwise necessary is that you are able to change the security setting which allows you to download from sources other than Google Play. I have done all this and it works a treat for me. Review: Good bit of kit - This item has only been used using Apple devices, so i am not able to comment on other devices. I have owned this item for about a week and it is a quite impressive item. I bought it for traveling. Its compact and portable and has a good build quality. I didn't find it difficult to setup using the MediaShare app. 1 week on from purchase and I am on a family break in the Scottish highlands. In fact I am writing this using the the internet bridge facility the MediaShare has and it works really well. The obvious advantage of using the Internet bridge facility is that you dont have to remember to change the WiFi your logged onto to have access to both internet and the MediaShare. So apart from the internet bridge, during the car journey 2 iPads streamed different videos at the same time, again this worked really well. The battery would have run out after 4-5 hours but that was not a problem using a USB adaptor from the in car power ports. While on the break there has been up to 3 iPads and an iPhone accessing content or using the internet bridge in different combinations from SD card and external Hard Drive. The WiFi range is very impressive, i am staying in a fair sized cottage and i personally have not noticed anywhere that i haven't received full bars. I also have a 24MP DSLR camera the files that it produces are pretty hefty. But the MediaShare has allowed me to take the photos from the SD card and put them in my external HD, Also transferring some of them to my iPad. Again (you guessed it) this works really well. I haven't yet been in the situation that i have needed the MediaShare as a backup battery for phone or pad. I have connected both to it and they do switch to charge mode. so i have no doubt that this facility will work just as well as the others. Now for the reason i have only given the MediaShare 4 stars. The App. The mediaShare App allows you to set the device up and use the connected content. and what it does, it does well. How ever the limiting factor hence 4 Stars is that it will only stream .mp4 video files to apple devices. So if you are going to only use the MediaShare App then some time consuming conversion needs to be done before use if you have lots of .AVI format videos. Hopefully Verbatim will do something to make the app less limiting in this respect. However the main device comes to the rescue on this front. The unit is an SMB server and third party players will be able to pick it up and after entering the user name and password set up in the mediaShare app, access and stream far more content than the MediaShare app limits you to. I researched several similar items before choosing this one, and although i will not know weather i have chosen the best product. I am personally very satisfied with my purchase. ## Features - Secure - Password protected wireless access - USB/SD Connection - Built-in USB port and SD Memory slot - File Manager App - Available iOS and Android mobile app. LED indicator to show reading and writing activity. System requirements: Requires iOS 4.0 or higher, Android 2.2 or higher - Extended Battery Life - Up to 5-7 hours of continuous battery life - Convenient - Upload and Download content wirelessly ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B00CZ0P0PS | | Box Contents | Media Share | | Brand Name | Verbatim | | Color | Black | | Compatible Devices | Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Smartphone, Camera, Drone | | Customer Package Type | Standard Packaging | | Customer Reviews | 3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars (1,671) | | Data Transfer Rate | 3 Megabits Per Second | | Digital Storage Capacity | 64 GB | | Enclosure Material | NAND flash or equivalent | | Form Factor | 2.5-inch | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00023942982432 | | Hard Disk Description | Solid State Hard Drive | | Hard Disk Form Factor | 2.5 Inches | | Hard Disk Interface | USB 1.1 | | Hardware Connectivity | SDHC, SDXC, USB | | Installation Type | External Hard Drive | | Item Part Number | 98243 | | Item Weight | 0.28 Pounds | | Manufacturer | VERBATIM CORPORATION | | Manufacturer Part Number | 98243 | | Media Speed | 70 MB/s | | Model Name | 98243 | | Model Number | 98243 | | Network Connectivity Technology | USB, WLAN 802.11b Port, WLAN 802.11g Port, Yes | | Number of Items | 1 | | Product Features | Memory Slot | | Product Warranty | 2 years manufacturer's warranty | | Specific Uses For Product | Multimedia or Personal/Business | | UPC | 601976522710 023942982432 239429824328 | ## Product Details - **Brand:** Verbatim - **Colour:** Black - **Compatible devices:** Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Smartphone, Camera, Drone - **Connectivity technology:** USB, WLAN 802.11b Port, WLAN 802.11g Port, Yes - **Digital storage capacity:** 64 GB - **Hard disk description:** Solid State Hard Drive - **Hard disk form factor:** 2.5 Inches - **Hard disk interface:** USB 1.1 - **Installation type:** External Hard Drive - **Special feature:** Memory Slot ## Images ![Verbatim 98243 MediaShare Wireless - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71dn+vJfXBL.jpg) ![Verbatim 98243 MediaShare Wireless - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71euq1Oaa-L.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Style** options. ## Questions & Answers **Q: what do you actually do to make it work. Do you plug the sd card into the slot and it saves the files and then you can delete the files off the sd** A: It effectively is an SD card (or USB stick) reader that creates it's own WiFi hotspot so a device with the app installed for example can read the files or stream a movie etc. I preloaded with movies before a long holiday and configured the children's tablets to be able to connect to it and they watched whatever they wanted, independent to each other - like having a media streamer at home for the TV **Q: Hi Has anyone used a memory card/ stick bigger than 64 gb? Did it work?** A: I have used this with USB drives with 500 Gb with no problems. I don't think there is any limit to the size of USB drive or stick that can be attached. **Q: Can you use it to charge your I phone , I pad or a android device** A: You can in an emergency but it will soon sap the energy from it's battery. If you just want a portable device to charge a phone or tablet there are cheaper and more efficient devices out there. **Q: Hi, I assume that once your mobile device is connected to the media share device you no longer have internet connectivity? Can someone confirm pls?** A: Go to settings and do a bridge. Really easy then you have internet which is a bit slower and share on device ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent *by A***T on 8 October 2015* This is a great little device. I bought it to use with my new phone- a Vodafone Smart ultra 6 running Android Lollipop 5.0.2. It hasn't taken me very long to get my head around how to use it and I have found it to be a little more capable than I was led to believe from both Verbatim's website and the reviews I have read before deciding to purchase. If I have any criticisms these are down to the Android app "Mediashare". From what I now know, if my experience is typical of what most people will find albeit with other phones, nobody should be put off buying one. The first thing to do is charge it fully. This took about an hour and a half using my phone's charger. The next thing is to switch it on after first connecting either an SD card or a suitable USB device (hard drive or memory stick (pen drive) and allow it a minute or two to establish its own wireless network then connect your phone to it. At this point you need to open apps. You can set a password to allow connection to the app but this isn't strictly necessary. I opened Mediashare and I soon found that if the phone screen times out, on going back in I get a prompt saying log in to the network. Follow that and it goes to a screen where you are offered the chance to set or input a password. If, instead you click on the top corner widget you get the option of either not using the network or using it AS IS. I chose the latter. Once you have done this you should find that it and all other apps will connect immediately- if not you will get a message saying it couldn't connect to Mediashare. It's a minor niggle that sometimes you have to let the screen time out in order to activate a connection to the app this way. What was really disappointing about the Mediashare app (I am using the January 2015 version) was that having navigated to the directory containing the film files I could choose from, on selecting one it should have offered me a choice of apps to open it with, instead I got a message saying there were no apps installed to open the files with- when I know damn well there are several! However, rather than uninstall the app I have left it on my phone as the options for changing various settings are contained within it and these work well enough- and they're not found on other apps. All was not lost by any means, as I had read other people's reviews which stated that ES File Manager works well with this device. I found this to be true. After installing ES File Manager (free from Google Play) I opened the app and my first task was to find out how to link it to the Mediashare device. There is a widget/ menu at the top left which opens to give you a huge list of options. I chose LAN. It was a case of entering the address 10.10.10.254. It then creates an icon which you click. This gives you a folder icon for either a card or USB device depending on what you have attached. From there you navigate to the file you want. You will find that if the file is compatible with ES File Manager's player (ES Player) it will offer you an option to use that otherwise the options you get depend on which player apps are present on your phone. I tend to have 3 different HD files on my media- MP4, M2TS and TS formats. ES Player loves MP4s. If you select M2Ts or TS files you will need something like VLC Player but even then there can be playback problems but fortunately I have found a way round this. Many of my MP4 files were created using my Hauppauge HD PVR2 and have a variable bitrate of 10MB/s. ES Player played these PERFECTLY when streamed by the Mediashare device. The very same file will stutter when using VLC for Android or something based on VLC so I tried an experiment: There have been quite a number of times when I converted an MP4 file (created by the HDPVR2 using Arcsoft Showbiz) to M2TS or TS format using Video to Video Converter because there appeared to be a timing issue preventing it from streaming to my TV using Nero Mediahome 4 (DLNA server). Doing this gave me a TV- compatible file of visual quality virtually identical to the original MP4. But I was now in a position where ES Player didn't like those files so the obvious thing was to convert them back to MP4. I chose the option to convert to H.264 MP4 on Video to Video. I noticed that when I did the original conversion to M2TS or TS from MP4 the file size and bitrate often decreased, and now I was getting a further bitrate reduction on converting back to MP4. To my delight I found the quality was just as good and best of all these MP4s ran perfectly on both ES Player and VLC!! The issue, therefore was that VLC is more sensitive to bitrate than ES Player and when cut enough, both work as well as the other. I have yet to try cutting an M2TS or TS bitrate as such and seeing if these will stream or not. Another thing worthy of note is that I have found that when using SDXC cards, although Verbatim's website says that the maximum capacity is 64GB, the 128MB Qumox SDXC cards work well, and also whereas Verbatim say that these should be formatted with ExFAT, they actually work just as well for me formatted with NTFS!! One other thing I found is that there is a Chromecast plugin available for ES Player. I installed it but found I couldn't cast from the Mediashare with it. Presumably this was because the Mediashare is on its own network and the Chromecast is on my own local router network. I did read somewhere that someone had succeeded in connecting them but have yet to explore this. In conclusion, hopefully my experiences as detailed here will help you enjoy the use of what is an excellent device. UPDATE 12/10/15: To my surprise the Mediashare app has suddenly started allowing me to select players from a list, as it should do. It's a mystery as to why it didn't do it in the first place, after all I haven't updated the app or even just reinstalled it. What I did note once it started working more correctly is that it will change the icon it displays if it knows which apps it can offer access to, but not if it doesn't know what apps the file type corresponds to. Thus, MP4's have one type of icon, but M2TS etc. have another. If you click on the latter it still says no app installed. However, this still doesn't explain why it is now telling me that it can offer options to play MP4s whereas previously it didn't, and MP4s were there from the start! Weird... The other thing I'm finding now is that as soon as I connect my phone to the Mediashare I'm not having to log in to its network in the manner I previously described, the Mediashare app seems much happier about it. ES file manager needs to log in but only needs a user name - admin and not a password, when going in via a saved network icon. Seems a lot easier now. UPDATE 24/10/15 Having played around in various ways I have made a few further discoveries which could help others get the best out of this device using their Android phone. Firstly, there is an easier way to get VLC media player to stop stuttering- on VLC for Android, go to Preferences, then Advanced and set Network caching Value to at least 600. I have it at 1400. I also have Hardware acceleration disabled. You should find your movies will now play smoothly- and not only will .mp4 stream but so should .ts and .m2ts movies- they certainly have done for me. The other thing I have found is that, if instead you use XBMC media player for Android (now called Kodi)- I installed the latest version (dated 20/10/15), this will play (stream) .mp4, .ts and .m2ts files AND also .iso dvd disc image files from the mediashare!! As previously, just connect the mediashare to your phone wirelessly and if necessary log in to the network as I have previously described.Trust me- it's been brilliant in my experience lately. XBMC played my usual file types without any stutter right from the beginning, no quibbles or questions asked. It didn't like Windows Media Videos though, so there is still a place for other players.There is one slight complication with XBMC- which is that it's not available via Google Play, but there are full instructions on what to do to install it given on pcadvisor.co.uk- easily found if you google for them. All that is otherwise necessary is that you are able to change the security setting which allows you to download from sources other than Google Play. I have done all this and it works a treat for me. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good bit of kit *by D***S on 13 March 2014* This item has only been used using Apple devices, so i am not able to comment on other devices. I have owned this item for about a week and it is a quite impressive item. I bought it for traveling. Its compact and portable and has a good build quality. I didn't find it difficult to setup using the MediaShare app. 1 week on from purchase and I am on a family break in the Scottish highlands. In fact I am writing this using the the internet bridge facility the MediaShare has and it works really well. The obvious advantage of using the Internet bridge facility is that you dont have to remember to change the WiFi your logged onto to have access to both internet and the MediaShare. So apart from the internet bridge, during the car journey 2 iPads streamed different videos at the same time, again this worked really well. The battery would have run out after 4-5 hours but that was not a problem using a USB adaptor from the in car power ports. While on the break there has been up to 3 iPads and an iPhone accessing content or using the internet bridge in different combinations from SD card and external Hard Drive. The WiFi range is very impressive, i am staying in a fair sized cottage and i personally have not noticed anywhere that i haven't received full bars. I also have a 24MP DSLR camera the files that it produces are pretty hefty. But the MediaShare has allowed me to take the photos from the SD card and put them in my external HD, Also transferring some of them to my iPad. Again (you guessed it) this works really well. I haven't yet been in the situation that i have needed the MediaShare as a backup battery for phone or pad. I have connected both to it and they do switch to charge mode. so i have no doubt that this facility will work just as well as the others. Now for the reason i have only given the MediaShare 4 stars. The App. The mediaShare App allows you to set the device up and use the connected content. and what it does, it does well. How ever the limiting factor hence 4 Stars is that it will only stream .mp4 video files to apple devices. So if you are going to only use the MediaShare App then some time consuming conversion needs to be done before use if you have lots of .AVI format videos. Hopefully Verbatim will do something to make the app less limiting in this respect. However the main device comes to the rescue on this front. The unit is an SMB server and third party players will be able to pick it up and after entering the user name and password set up in the mediaShare app, access and stream far more content than the MediaShare app limits you to. I researched several similar items before choosing this one, and although i will not know weather i have chosen the best product. I am personally very satisfied with my purchase. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by D***B on 7 September 2015* Fonctionne Γ  merveille avec mon iPad air 2 et iPhone 6 plus. Fini le manque d'espace pour de la musique sur le iPhone. Pas besoin de transfΓ©rer des films sur mon iPad car aucunes saccades ou coupures durant la lecture en streaming au format mp4. 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