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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 …

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  1. NoneSuch Silver badge
    Joke

    From what I heard.

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

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  3. amanfromearth
    Dead Vulture

    Guess, guess and guess again

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

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Jobs Horns

    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.

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  5. Havin_it

    Perfect ipad companion?

    A hammer?

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    1. Cameron Colley
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      You mean a blender, surely?

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

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  6. Anonymous Coward
    Pint

    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?

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    1. Mark 65
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      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.

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  7. 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.

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  8. farizzle
    IT Angle

    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...

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    1. farizzle
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      Go

      cat's out the bag now..

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

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  9. Anonymous Coward
    Jobs Halo

    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?

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  10. 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.

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  11. Dick Emery

    Weefee HDD

    Methinks it will be wireless HDD or flash.

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