Pogoplug maker intros nano Nas for smartphones
Your own personal Dropbox
IFA 2011 Cloud Engines, the build-your-own-cloud-storage company, has unveiled a junior member of its Pogoplug device family: the Pogoplug Mobile.
The compact unit sports a single USB 2.0 port to which you can hook up external storage to share online. You don't even need a drive - the Mobile also has an SD slot ready for you to run a personal version of Dropbox.
Geared toward smartphone users, the gadget links to software that not only provides you with access to content on your connected storage - media can be streamed across the net - but also duplicates new material on the handset - snaps you've taken, or music you've downloaded - back to base.
All this is implemented in separate apps for Android devices, iPhones and iPads.
In addition to the USB and SD ports, the Mobile has a Gigabit Ethernet jack for the network link.
Pogoplug Mobile goes on sale early October for $80/£60. ®
COMMENTS
Re: The problem with the pogoplug solutions ....
You can also flash the bootloader and get them to run the ARM version of ArchLinux of an attached disk. Of the four Pogoplugs I own, I've done this to three of them and they make very good, low-power Linux boxen.
Backup Device for Smartphones
I thought this was the computer you synced files to the phone and updated it with?
Re: The problem with the pogoplug solutions ....
Last I looked, you could also use desktop software, smartphone apps and even both Finder and Windows Explorer.
SOunds useful
Except that SugarSync already provides all of this and it is free for upto 5GB. My photos etc are automatically uploaded from my phone and I can both access files and stream media from it. I suppose this has the advantage of not handing over your files to a third party - but that is only really an advantage to the law-breakers and/or paranoid.
hmmm
All of which route through pogoplugs website....
I got a pogoplug, it promised so much and failed to deliver all but the most basic audio streaming.
