Eye-Fi's 2GB SD wireless card hits the FCC
By Darren Murph 
posted October 19th 2007 1:42PM
posted October 19th 2007 1:42PM
posted October 19th 2007 1:42PM
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awesome...been waiting on this awhile
Just out of curiosity, did you ever announce winners to all those contests you held over a month ago?
Combined with Leopard's wireless camera support, this is perfect timing...
TOO perfect...
would this work with a palm treo 700wx?
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!
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
@Terry
Your phone is HUGE I can fit two of my phone in there!
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!
did i read that right? This will take ANY sd card based digital camera into a wifi camera?
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.
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 ?......
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. :(
Sprints Treo 700p.
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!
Can someone please tell me what the deal is? Is this an SD card that allows for wi-fi, like in a laptop?
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!
Just in case any of you were wondering - 2GB isnt a lot.
Wait for the High capacity from panasonic version.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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...
Nope. It doesn't do SDIO.
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.
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.
That cleared up what this card could do. Thanks, man.
i'm thinking $100.00
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.
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?
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...