Toshiba hopes cloudless smartphone backup will have a bright future

What will back up all the data on your smartphone, but doesn’t physically exist? No, it’s not another cloud backup service, it’s the centerpiece of Toshiba Storage Peripherals’ booth at IFA.

The as-yet-unnamed (and unfinished) product will be about the size of a small plate, to judge by the prototype in a glass case on the booth. It will have a USB connection to charge your smartphone and back up its contents to an included 500 GB hard disk. There will be no cloud servers involved, and no internet connection needed: Everything will stay inside the device, said Toshiba’s product manager for hard disks, Eun-Kyung Hong.

“This is for home backup where you know all your data is in your home, not in the cloud where you don’t know whether it’s secure or not,” she said.

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