SINGAPORE — The Samsung HomeSync is a 1TB storage device touted to work as a home cloud solution — enabling up to eight separate accounts to share and save content from your Android devices. It can also be hooked up to the Internet — either wirelessly or through LAN — and to the big screen TV, so you can share movies, music and other media content with your family. And content can be made private or shared.

Setting it up is easy enough: Just tap your NFC-enabled Android phone and you are good to go. Even if you do not have an NFC-enabled phone, it is not difficult to set it up. After pairing with your Samsung Android phone — it only works with Samsung — you can use it as a remote control for your TV.

The HomeSync also behaves like an Android device, so you can download movies directly onto the machine and share it with your Samsung mobile devices should you decide to take it on-the-go.

It comes ready with a HDMI plug for video output, and a micro-USB, ethernet and two USB 3.0 ports. It is also Bluetooth 4.0 ready and wireless-ready with 802.11b/g/n support. The HomeSync is powered by a 1.7GHz dual core Exynos processor with 2GB DDR3 RAM, so playing simple games will be a cinch.

While Samsung calls this a home hub solution, the device does not act as a shared network to connect desktop PCs or laptops. But if you want to make your TV smarter, this might do the trick. The Samsung HomeSync is available at major electronics stores for S$498. Peter Yeo