Amazon Cloud Drive: buy music and listen anywhere via Internet

Cloud Drive is an online hard drive of five gigabytes of free storage in the base version. Buy at Amazon an MP3 music album, it automatically moves to the Cloud Drive - and is followed everywhere and always ready to listen. You need an active Internet connection and a special player program called "Cloud player", the Amazon, both for the PC as well as "Android" phones offered for download.

On the cloud-disk can also store other files, including photos and text files. The retrieval is done by the browser. For a fee, you expand the memory to a maximum of 20 gigabyte. The goal is to music from a portable player (MP3 player, smartphone) and detach to make widely available. Amazon Cloud Drive comes with the competition before, and apparently Google and Apple are working on similar services.


Amazon Cloud Drive, there are currently only available for U.S. customers.

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• Amazon Beats Google to Cloud Music Service (29/03/2011)
• Amazon reveals its Cloud Music Player first (29/03/2011)
• Amazon "digital locker" cloud aiming to overshadow Apple and Google? (28/03/2011)

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