IDrive unveils unlimited photo backup service
IDrive Photos service is available for both Android and iOS users
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Cloud storageproviderIDrivehas launched a new dedicated service for backing up photos and videos fromsmartphones.
Dubbed IDrive Photos, the service costs $9.95/year and offers unlimited storage space. Furthermore, first time users get a 90% discount on their first year, which will only cost them 99 cents.
The newcloud backupservice hopes to attract users looking for alternatives now thatGoogle Photoshaschanged its termsto restrict High Quality images to only the 15GB that comes for free with everyGoogleaccount. In fact, IDrive Photos launched on the same day as the newGoogle Photosrestrictions kicked in.
IDrive goes on to claim that its new Photos service offers a price advantage even over the paid plans of Google Photos that offers 100GB of storage for $1.99/month, as well asiCloudthat charges $2.99/month for 50GB of storage.
Full feature service
IDrive claims its pricing advantage doesn’t come at the expense of useful features.
The new service will offer several options to share the photos/video online as well as with family and friends. Available for bothAndroidandiOSdevices, IDrive Photos ships with the auto upload option to automaticallybackupany photos and videos from the device to the cloud.
The user interface of the service offers a timeline view, which IDrive claims will help users view media from a specific time period with relative ease.
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Furthermore, users will be able to download the backed up photos to any device, either by selecting specific media or the entire gallery.
With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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