LatticeWork Amber Personal Cloud review

Sync, share and stream photos from you own personal encrypted cloud, but don’t expect any magic

LatticeWork Amber Personal Cloud review
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Digital Camera World Verdict

This early sample of a ‘personal cloud’ stores and shares family photos and videos in private, but it’s hampered by a poor app

Pros

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    Camera roll backup for multiple phones

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    No need to share data with Google

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    End-to-end encryption

Cons

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    Permanent ‘ring of light’

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    Multiple apps and complexity

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    App is slow

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    No face recognition or GPS

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Remember that big family holiday you took last year? Where are all the photos? If your family is like everyone else’s, it’s likely that they exist across multiple smartphones, tablets and cameras, probably never to be united and archived despite good intentions. Cue Amber, ‘smart storage’ that promises to backup, collate and categorise photos and videos from multiple devices without ever going near the internet. Anyone in the family can then access all the photos taken on a specific trip at anytime on a phone, tablet or laptop.

Amber is a ’personal cloud’, an overhaul of the network attached storage (NAS) concept that means you can swerve services like Google Photos, but supposedly do it in an easy-to-use way. Why? Google Photos is free and backs-up phone photos to the cloud. It even allows you to share albums and individual files with others. That’s all true, but Google throttles the resolution of photos unless you pay fees. 

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Jamie has been writing about all aspects of technology for over 14 years, producing content for sites like TechRadar, T3, Forbes, Mashable, MSN, South China Morning Post, and BBC Wildlife, BBC Focus and BBC Sky At Night magazines. 

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