Seagate to unveil 'perfect iPad companion'

Seagate says it's going to announce a "perfect companion" for iPads and other tablets later this month. We're told it's a first-of-a-kind product, and we're avidly trying to work out what it is. Being Seagate, this thing must have a hard disk drive in it. The company already has iPad involvement with its TV Remote app. This …

[NoneSuch]

From what I heard.

It is an animated paperclip to help you when you have issues.

[amanfromearth]

Guess, guess and guess again

What a fu**ing wast of time. Lets' just write some bollocks to fill the space.

[Anonymous Coward]

How will Seagate keep Apple happy?

Apple can always change their T&C to outlaw the use of external storage systems not to their liking. Apple has an interest in reserving any innovation to itself, unless it's getting a cut and fosters dependency on Apple.

Apple would like customers' data exclusively in their cloud. Maybe this will be a means of uploading large quantities of data to the cloud.

[Havin_it]

Perfect ipad companion?

A hammer?

[Cameron Colley]

You mean a blender, surely?

Or is the hammer just to get it into the blender?

[Anonymous Coward]

Bluetooth HD?

I want a battery-powered, blue-tooth enabled, external drive. I wanna leave it in my backpack or pocket and massively expand the storage on my portable. They've put every other friggin' connector and widget on the GoFlex... why not bluetooth?

[Mark 65]

Storage

I think we can rule out convenient external storage as Apple will simply kill it off as nobody would ever bother buying anything above and beyond the base model.

[Paul Wells]

Can't be the remote file app

There's plenty of apps which allow ipod/phone/pad to play files from drives attached to other computers (Windows and OS X, not sure about Linux) on the same wifi network.

[farizzle]

i reckon..

it's a combination of a clever app, an docking connector-based radio-type dongley thingey, and a small HDD with a power reserve.

Connect said dongle to iPad, and power up your external drive. iPad app then allows access to storage space and media stored on said external drive...

[farizzle]

cat's out the bag now..

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/external-hard-drive/goflex-satellite

[Anonymous Coward]

Bloody obvious

Its a docking station, with USB ports, harddrive.

Attached to one long edge of the slab so the screen hinges up to expose a keyboard.

This will also act as a screen protector when mobile.

Anybody know the way to the patent office?

[calumg]

Media server

Upload music+videos to media server, stream onto iPad via WiFi. Maybe they've got some special software, or maybe they have extra hardware like a TV tuner or DVD player built into it. Maybe it streams over the internet.

[Dick Emery]

Weefee HDD

Methinks it will be wireless HDD or flash.