Eye-Fi's 2GB SD wireless card hits the FCC

It's taken nearly a full year, but Eye-Fi has finally gotten around to doubling the capacity of its multifaceted SD card. The Eye-Fi-2GB provides the same WiFi-enabling capabilities to any SD-ready digital camera, but this one looks to pack 2GB of capacity to handle even more snaps. From what we can tell by peeking the (apparently scanned in) user's manual, the card will be compatible with both Macs and PCs, but of course, we've no idea how much this thing will cost you when it finally hits shelves. Rest assured, we'll be finding out soon enough.

[aaron @ Oct 19th 2007 1:58PM]

awesome...been waiting on this awhile

[Benzido @ Oct 19th 2007 2:01PM]

Just out of curiosity, did you ever announce winners to all those contests you held over a month ago?

[scott @ Oct 19th 2007 2:02PM]

Combined with Leopard's wireless camera support, this is perfect timing...


TOO perfect...

[brad @ Oct 19th 2007 2:03PM]

would this work with a palm treo 700wx?

[Shibathedog @ Oct 19th 2007 2:07PM]

Wait...So this is an SD Memory card and a Wi-Fi Adapter all in one? and manages to stay in the same form factor? Theres no way, If thats really what it is thats awesome!

[Terry Thomas @ Oct 19th 2007 4:22PM]

Same form factor?

That can't be.

Look at the photograph this thing is HUGE! I put my Toshiba Pocket PC Smart Phone up next to my monitor and the chip is almost as big as the phone!!

Terry

[Tony @ Oct 19th 2007 4:28PM]

@Terry

Your phone is HUGE I can fit two of my phone in there!

[Shibathedog @ Oct 19th 2007 2:09PM]

So this is a Wi-Fi Adapter and SD Memory card in one, while keeping the same form factor? Theres no way, If thats really what it is then thats awesome!

[mike @ Oct 19th 2007 2:12PM]

did i read that right? This will take ANY sd card based digital camera into a wifi camera?

[Merovingian @ Oct 21st 2007 11:50AM]

Your camera would need to be SDIO compatible. 99.98% of camera's are not. Kodak had certain camera's a few years back that were compatible with their Kodak SD-WiFi card, but they didn't sell a fart of wind.

[Bob @ Oct 19th 2007 2:18PM]

Am getting confused here .....? it turns a normal point-n-shoot camera into a WIFI-point-n-shoot camera ?

Now is that is true .......I would be able to send pictures from my camera sd card ( eye-fi) directly to my laptop .......

now this is too good to be true , isn't it ?......

[MaHe @ Oct 19th 2007 2:18PM]

mike: Actually your camera's firmware must support it and it needs SDIO. It's a very neat thing for PDAs, but you can hardly find a PDA without GSM/UMTS/WiFi already built-in ... I wish they would make a microSD sized one for my beloved Nokia 6120 Classic. :(

[Dae @ Oct 19th 2007 2:49PM]

Sprints Treo 700p.

[Tavis Veighey @ Oct 19th 2007 3:19PM]

Cool idea. It would be even cooler if they would make one that used MicroHCSD cards for the memory. That way you could really have some fun!

[DP @ Oct 19th 2007 4:13PM]

Can someone please tell me what the deal is? Is this an SD card that allows for wi-fi, like in a laptop?

[Ed @ Oct 19th 2007 4:34PM]

It's an SD card with firmware that uploads jpgs stored on the card. You can't use it as a wireless card for anything else. So nice that they managed to squeeze at least 2gigs of space in there!

[Anthony @ Oct 19th 2007 4:48PM]

Am I the only one who's moved beyond SD cards? MicroSD is pretty much everything I've got. Or Sony Memorystick. Sony sells a lot of cameras & so do others (xD, for instance) but I only see them working on big SD varieties.

[MeDammit @ Oct 19th 2007 8:43PM]

@Anthony

I'm sorry, WHAT? You must not get out much. SD is pretty much the weapon of choice for anything but the smallest devices(...and insanely expensive DSLR's). Even Sony is warming up to this fact.

[Anthony @ Oct 19th 2007 11:58PM]

I guess. Our Panasonic SDR100 uses SD cards, but phones & many cameras do not.

I would still like to see it expanded to more formats. My thinking is that once they've got the technology down they can just reformat. We'll see.

[PEZ @ Oct 19th 2007 5:00PM]

Just in case any of you were wondering - 2GB isnt a lot.

Wait for the High capacity from panasonic version.

[Tavis Veighey @ Oct 19th 2007 8:19PM]

But the card will automatically upload the pics to a laptop, or WiFi based storage device... So you could have a 500gig WiFi storage nearby. So you will basically have 500 gig of storage on your cam.

[Mikey @ Oct 19th 2007 6:31PM]

Will this allow my bro to access the web on his Windows Pocket PC 2004 phone (no wifi) so he doesn't need to barrow mine to check his e-mail?

He gets charged out the wahzoo for using the internet on his phone, but it does have a sd slot.

If so, I know the perfect b-day present...

[Mark @ Oct 21st 2007 8:55PM]

Nope. It doesn't do SDIO.

[Mike @ Oct 19th 2007 7:46PM]

I have played around with an early version of the card when they had the 1GB version out. It worked really well with the Kodak camera we tested it with. Yes the card has WiFi built in and maintains the same small SD form factor. I did not try it in a PDA to browse the web or anything but we did set it up to offload pictures when it was in the office and it worked well for an early test version.

[Joe @ Oct 19th 2007 8:45PM]

I've used the beta and am currently testing the gamma version of the card, both of which are 512MB. To clear some things up, the camera's firmware does not need to support the card, it works like a regular memory card. The difference is that the card detects when pictures are being written to it and will transfer the new pictures to either an online service, your PC, or both. Also, as of the current version, it does not allow wi-fi access. It is very specialized to simply transfer photos (.jpgs only, no RAW files) when they are written to the card. In fact you can put the card into a card reader, copy the files to the card, and it will still try to transfer the images to the online service. All-in-all, it's a slick little device.

[N30 G30 @ Oct 20th 2007 7:59PM]

That cleared up what this card could do. Thanks, man.

[jeff Lorber @ Oct 20th 2007 6:19AM]

i'm thinking $100.00

[sharky @ Oct 20th 2007 10:17AM]

what I want is one of these that I could plug into a printer, and then send images and docs to via wifi (such as from my iPhone) and have a mobile printing operation for contracts and photos without having to purchase a separate PDA.

[tdroza @ Oct 20th 2007 12:47PM]

I wonder... can you use the wifi to copy pics *onto* the card? If so, you could use it to turn a regular digi photo frame into a wireless frame, no?

[Danno @ Dec 6th 2007 8:22AM]

I have a spare Pocket PC Audiovox XV6600. Can I use this card to provide wireless AND memory on this unit? This older XV6600 has very limited on-board memory and the SD slot is needed for 1gb+ expansion. I have scoured the internet for an SD memory card w/ wireless and only find one other type (Sandisk 256mb w/ wireless). Does anyone else feel my pain? I need a 1gb SD card with integrated wireless...is there some hardware conflict that makes this a problem to manufacture? Need some advice...