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Hewlett-Packard is planning to kick off a remote new music storage characteristic with its approaching TouchPad tablet, a single that may locally cache new music that the consumer is almost certainly to pay attention to.
The clouds keep on to roll in. Although concerns nonetheless swirl regarding how Apple and Google will respond to Amazon‘s recently launched Cloud Drive and Cloud Player services, details are starting to emerge about other competitors’ plans in the remote person storage arena. Today brings word that Hewlett-Packard will be using cloud servers for audio storage when its webOS-powered HP TouchPad tablet arrives this summer.
The news comes from a Powerpoint presentation being sent around to HP Small & Medium Business customers previewing what’s coming up, PreCentral reports. The slideshow reveals plans for an HP Movie Store and an HP Songs Store. The notes for the latter mention built-in audio syncing using cloud servers to remotely store content.
It is hardly surprising at this point to hear that a tech company is embracing the cloud, but HP will offer a few features that trump what Amazon’s recently launched initiative is capable of so far. The TouchPad will use a “smart-caching” to locally store the music that the consumer is most likely to listen to. There will also be the option of streaming audio that isn’t actually owned. The service will apparently extend to HP smartphones as well at some point, most likely after they’ve all been updated to webOS 3.0 alongside the TouchPad.
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Office 2007 Serial, Apple continues to maintain a stranglehold on the tablet space with its (deservedly) popular iPad. Cloud syncing won’t make or break the success of the TouchPad, but if recent reports of a $499 price tag and June kick off are true, it will certainly arrive priced to compete, and with features and hardware specifications that trump the Apple device on several fronts.