FCC reveals Seagate GoFlex Satellite, a WiFi-capable battery-powered external harddrive

For a purportedly doomed manufacturer of magnetic storage, Seagate sure is spinning some interesting ideas today — last year, we got modular, upgradable cables , and now the company’s testing external hard drives that do not need pesky wires to operate. Consistent with filings, the Seagate GoFlex Satellite not just plays the network-attached-storage card with built-in 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, it is also got a three.7V battery inside its case… making the product’s name somewhat apt, don’t you observed? Per a leaked description, Seagate’s also planning a companion iOS app called “GoFlex Media” to let your iDevices stream content directly from the device. Mind you, none of that suggests you will not have the capacity to dock together with your Satellite the old-fashioned way — FCC docs also mention a USB 3.0 cable that delivers data and tool simultaneously.

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