Box.net does remote storage for the iPhone

Box.net, providers of free and paid-for Web storage have a slick new front-end for iPhone users. Once logged into your box.net account, you can access all your files and folders, using a scrolling hierarchical interface similar to that of the iPhone and iPod. Since it's still the same old Safari browser, you can't actually download any of the files to your iPhone, but it works great for viewing images, natively supported movie files, PDFs, Office documents, and text files on the go.

The real reason this would excite most people is the possibility of accessing music files to get around the limitation of the iPhone's 4 and 8 GB capacity. Unfortunately, in its current state, music files aren't working yet--despite the fact that the iPhone is perfectly capable of playing them. According to the folks at Box, it's the way it's been coded on their end, and a fix is in the works.

A feature I'd like to see that simply isn't possible is to upload several iPhone-captured images to your box.net account in bulk. The good news is that you can get around this by e-mailing the files as attachments to your box.net account via the iPhone's mail application.

Here's a short clip of the new interface, opening up image, text, and PDF files over a Wi-Fi connection.

[ismelllikemoney]

glide digital

yeah they got one thats killin that one, glidedigital.com u can listen to your music on pc from anywhere. its hot no need for a bigger hard drive on your iphone, holla

[Fil0403]

iPhone sucks

No need for a bigger hard drive on your iPhone? What do you do when you have no network or the connection is slow (no 3G)?

[Fil0403]

Box.net does what iPhone should do already

I dig the "Error playing movie" and the fact he couldn't play the movie at all and also the fact that this is useless when you have no connection or a slow one (no 3G *cough*), LOL.