Arlo Go 2 is an outdoor camera that works over LTE and Wi-Fi and has GPS

(Pocket-lint) - Arlo has introduced a second-generation Arlo Go information camera successful the US that works with some LTE and Wi-Fi. It adjacent has GPS.

If you unrecorded successful an country without Wi-Fi but inactive person entree to cellular connectivity, the $250 Arlo Go 2 LTE/Wi-Fi camera mightiness beryllium close for you. It tin spell connected a barn, shed, oregon someplace other remote. It features upwind resistance, 1080p afloat HD video recording, and a rechargeable and swappable battery.

Arlo claims the camera’s batteries volition past up to 3 months if you’re utilizing LTE, and up to 8 months if you’re utilizing Wi-Fi - but that's each depending connected however often the camera is activated, of course. Other caller features successful the Arlo Go 2 see GPS truthful you tin find it if you suffer it, a spotlight for nighttime events, and upgraded audio that allows you to person real-time conversations. The first-generation Arlo Go offers a push-to-talk system.

Keep successful caput the Arlo Go outgo $400 erstwhile it launched, and it didn’t enactment Wi-Fi and lone recorded successful 720p.

The lone downside with Arlo Go 2 is you request an Arlo Secure subscription if you privation to easy entree recorded footage saved to the unreality oregon usage the camera’s person, animal, and conveyance detection. There is simply a escaped three-month trial, but the basal mentation of the work costs $3 a period for 1 camera. The Go 2 tin grounds to a microSD card, but that means you'd request to spell get that retired each clip you privation to spot your footage. No thanks.

Lastly, for that LTE connection, you’ll request a cellular program from Verizon. That starts astatine $5 a period for adding the camera to a shared information program and goes up to $20 a period for unlimited data. Arlo promises to marque the Arlo Go 2 disposable done much carriers sometime successful 2022.

Arlo cameras enactment Alexa and Google Assistant devices and besides enactment with IFTTT.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 4 November 2021.