If you feel uncomfortable with your images being stored on cloud servers the Pholio device is a new offline alternative that offers many of the features we are used to from cloud services like Google Photos.
Once connected to a PC, Mac, tablet or smartphone, Pholio automatically searches through the device storage and backs up all images and videos, either at full size or smaller 'optimized' versions. If you choose the latter Pholio provides a link to the full size-version.
Pholio comes as a standard version with a 500GB capacity or as a 'Pro' variant that offers 2TB of storage. 20,000 built-in descriptors allow for automatic tagging and easy searching, but the system is capable of learning if you want to add your own keywords. Face detection allows to find images and create albums for a specific person and the software is even capable of finding still shots within a video clip. The Pholio makers say an update will expand the backup services and include encryption.
You can now reserve a 500GB Pholio by pledging £200 (approximately $260) on the project's Kickstarter page. If the funding goal is reached delivery is expected for January 2018.
How about Linux and Android? The technical information on the Kickstarter site is not extensive. That is common though for Kickstarters. They are starting up and do not really know what is going to be available at launch, and even less about later.
I'd just setup a sync feature on a PC/laptop and leave it on. Google Photos service is decent enough for me unless I'd want to save videos that are larger than 1080p.
I have an USB disc that is 20x80x120 mm. This thing is 60x195x235. I could fit 12 of my USB discs in this case. Now, my disk is made by Samsung, a professional high end electronics manufacturer, and this is a Kickstarter, I assume there is a difference :)
BTW - my disk is 4 TB, i.e. 8 times bigger. So, the volume to MB ratio is approx 100 times more data per cubic cm in my Samsung disk. Those 4TB also did cost approx $100, which is 20 times cheaper per MB.
$260 for 500 GB? They must be dreaming, or drinking too much Koolaid.. Also, 2TB doesn't take care of a "good" fraction of a full-time photographer or even an enthusiast.
Indeed. No prominent tag for crowdfunding on the DPReview main page, and then you have to read to the fourth paragraph to find out that interested parties must "reserve" their device and "pledge" for it on Kickstarter.
It must be annoying to be a company with actual products for sale these days. You get to share the bill with a bunch of people effectively soliciting unregulated capital for their own business schemes who are claiming to offer better products at some point in the future - fingers crossed - but who may well not deliver anything at all.
Kickstarter campaigns are not investments. I'm sure Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms go to great lengths to make this clear on the advice of their lawyers.
"... and then you have to read to the fourth paragraph to find out " Long ago, I learned to start reading at the last paragraph, and if I found it interesting, then I'd go to the top of the article :) ... Just a hint.
If it was offering 2Tb for £200 as the entry model it might be worth considering. The pro version needs to be at least 6Gb and probably between 8 and 12.
What I really need: An SSD drive with SD/micro SD reader built-in and an extra hub of a standard USB to daisy-chain or connect to a thumb drive.
Because, I usually don't off-load data to my Surface Pro, so I need a drive that also act as a card reader and hub to copy from/to card to the external SSD and another backup copy to anther external drive at the same time.
I am already using 7TB external drives for back up. Not sure if this is going to be enough to be attractive to those who are useless at deleting files like me.
Considering that you can get a 500gb storage devices for well under $100, they basically sell an "Artificial intelligence" (= same old machine learning based scene recognition) piece of software that organizes photos for about $200. Wow
I wish you could find a font that showed a clear difference between a small "L" and a capital "i". Every time I see a reference to AI, I wonder to myself WHO IS THIS GUY CALLED AL? HE'S INTO EVERYTHING NOW!
500gb hard drive at what price? I can get no less than 10 times more without the AI part. Or 1tb X2 hard drives to backup to + a couple of years of cloud backup. Kind of hard to decide...
This is dumb. Release it as a commercial software that works with any external drive if it is anything but "planning" right now. If it works Apple or Microsoft will buy you out and then you can throw a party.
Not even so. This feature is already present as the time machine in os, and i have used software like combian backup in the old Windows days. Kind of "no news".
"If you feel uncomfortable with your images being stored on cloud servers, - AND YOU SOMEHOW HAVE MANAGED TO NOT OWN A COMPUTER ALL THESE YEARS, - the Pholio device is a new offline alternative that offers many of the features we are used to from cloud services like Google Photos."
It may be just me, but using "is", "does", and "has" for something that is a kickstarter project (and we all know a significant portion of kickstarter projects never get to the "is" phase) is really kind of misleading. There's more "if" here than just reaching the funding goal.
I also believe DPReview readers would be better served if Kickstarter fundraiser articles were not treated as stock product announcements. I thought this was an actual product announcement based on the headline... only to discover at the very end of the article that it's nothing more than a Kickstarter fundraiser.
It is highly recommended to read the last few lines on here before you decide to read an article on a product from an unknown entity. That's why I have done for a very long time.
Hmmmm ... so how shall we view a kickstarter project if we shall ignore the technical data they give? They say 500 GB for $250. I think 500 GB is just totally uninteresting as image and video backup. What shall I do then? Saying that it might turn out to be something much larger, for the same price? Lets hope and wait?
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