Pushbullet Portal launched for iOS

You often have to search for a data cable to transfer your data from your smartphone to computer or vice versa. Portal from Pushbullet is an app that takes care of this issue and allows you to transfer data from your smartphone to computer and the other way around using Wi-Fi. Pushbullet has already been around for Android and has now been launched for iOS devices too.

While Pushbullet as an app did not require you smartphone and computer to be on the same Wi-Fi network, the phone used to heat up when it transferred bigger files with the devices not being on the same network. It is easier t0 transfer files on the same network and Portal took advantage of this. Portal requires both the devices between which the file transfer is to take place to be on the same Wi-Fi network.

What this does is that it makes the file transfers quite fast. The folks back at Portal claim that the app works like a breeze even with file transfers larger than 1GB.  There are no restrictions on the size of the file being transferred or the format of the file. The files get transferred in their original format. The pictures that are transferred even get added to the gallery on the smartphone.

An added advantage of the app is that it lets you receive files from others on the same Wi-Fi network by clicking here, scanning the code and simply dropping the files that are required to be transferred. Portal by Pushbullet comes forth as a to-the-point app that will help you transfer files wirelessly within your network without having to use a data cable every time you need to transfer a file between a smartphone and a computer.