Wuala, the online backup arm of hard-drive manufacturer LaCie, has announced the immediate availability of Wuala for Android, an app for accessing Wuala storage accounts on the Android platform.
Following hot on the heels of Wuala for iPhone and iPad, the Android app allows users to both access files already backed up to their Wuala account, plus upload files to their backup space from the phone. This latter functionality is currently exclusive to the Android app -- iPhone/iPad users can only access existing backups, not add new files from the iOS device.
Wuala is an online backup service like any other, with a few noteworthy features. First, unlike rival services like Dropbox, all files are encrypted or decrypted on the user's computer or mobile device prior to uploading or downloading, which means Wuala isn't in a position to hand over a user's files to any third party. Second, it offers a wide range of tariffs.
Finally, Wuala stands alone in offering a free online backup service through trading online storage space for free space on a user's computer. The minimum qualification is that a computer is online for four or more hours a day, and the amount of space available is calculated by the amount of space made available on the user's computer multiplied by the percentage of time they're online in a day, so someone giving up 100GB of space for the minimum four hours (17 percent) would get 17GB; leave the computer on for eight hours a day (34 percent) and the available storage space is doubled. Storage can be divided across multiple computers, but they must all be online for the minimum required time Other restrictions may apply -- see the Wuala FAQ for details.
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