Verizon Wireless is going into the cloud storage business for tablets and smartphones up against the likes of Dropbox.
It ultimately expects to let customers transfer information between operating systems.
The Verizon Cloud will roll out the service soon, starting with Android and moving on to iOS and then other operating systems later this year.
Verizon would like to see consumers install the upcoming secure app on all their devices including Windows computers so they can upload content and sync it in the cloud.
The company reasons that the content on the widgets is “more valuable than the device itself” and that it can give folks, for some reason all too careless with their widgets, a place to go to restore this content if they lose the device.
The widgetry will be able to handle text messages, call logs, contacts, music, multimedia and other files up to 125GB of storage.