http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/ Engadget Comments for Eye-Fi Pro wireless SD card hands-on http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/Jun 9th 2009 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/Jun 9th 2009 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/Has it been officially announced?]]>Jun 9th 2009 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/Jun 9th 2009 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/
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3) The Eye-Fi Card draws power from the card slot, which is a lot less drain then the LCD. While the card uploads, it draws more power from the slot, and while it's not uploading, it's sleeping. Most people that leave the camera on for the card to upload, leave it Play mode, which turns the LCD on. Put the camera in Capture mode, and turn the LCD off, and you'll see how the camera will stay on, MUCH longer.
4) The card will upload at hotspots, if they're powered by WayPort or if they're totally open (no splash screen or log-in screen). If there are a lot of people using that hotspot, or if you're too far away from the hotpots, the uploads will be slow. It all depends on the current situation at the hotspot]]>Jun 10th 2009 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/
Secondly -- you don't need the web to get the card connected to an ad-hoc network. Here is how you can do it, and have it always work, even if you're offline:

* while you're online, once, get the card registered, as a new card in our system. Creating an account with Eye-Fi is the first step.
* Go through the steps to get the card configured, once, while you're online.
* Create an ad-hoc network, and, for example, call it "ad-hoc 1" Just an idea
* Now, your Eye-Fi Card has memorized this SSID
* next time that you want to get the card to connect, just start a new ad-hoc network on your Mac/PC and call it "ad-hoc 1".
* that's it. The card will find it, since it already knows about that SSID, and your uploads will start.

]]>Jun 11th 2009 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/
If Eye-Fi wanted a nifty device they'd make a simple mini-usb dongle, self powered that did the wireless dirty deeds. That would work with all the camera's. In fact I think someone posted a do-it-yourself version of something like this somewhere on engadget awhile back.]]>Jun 10th 2009 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/I don't think geo-tagging would be practical with wifi. Though, surely it will help marketing!]]>Jun 10th 2009 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/
Further -- geo is not just a marketing feature. Most photos are taken indoor and around urban areas, where there is (even faint) Wi-Fi. Around those areas, your photos will get geo-tagged. GPS is a better approach for accurate geo outside, where there is no Wi-Fi, but GPS doesn't work indoor, and as mentioned earlier, most photos are taken indoor.]]>Jun 11th 2009 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/
in another words if you are on the road and your smartphone can be wireless access point (iPhone can if you ... ehm) then you takes snaps and they are uploaded within seconds to the site.

wireless access point does not have to be your smartphone, but anything (e.g. hotel wireless connection when you are on vacation and some assholes steals your camera)

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If you want to geek it out, you can have something like the MiFi or an ad-hoc connection in your phone (WinMo, Symbian) and anywhere that you go -- you will still be online.]]>Jun 11th 2009 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/
The problem is with reliability. I've already had one card go belly up, for no explicable reason. Another card decided to stop working and left a "CHA" message on my camera. When I returned home, it started working again, minus the pictures I had just taken at my son's school event. I've gotten to the point where I carry a "normal" SD card as a backup, because I can't trust the ongoing viability of this card. Pity, because I really do like the product - theoretically.

Unfortunately I don't think I'm alone in my thinking. A google search of "Eye Fi piece of crap" yields a multitude of hits.]]>Jun 10th 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/Jun 11th 2009 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/
I suppose this thing still has more capacity than my 2 GB SD card I use in my 6 MP camera (RAW+JPEG takes about... 200 pics to fill it up) but what is the speed like? I'm hoping the flash memory is reasonably quick in this thing.]]>Jun 10th 2009 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/
It's a class-6 card, which is fast enough for today's modern HD cameras.]]>Jun 11th 2009 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://support.eye.fi/general/i-hear-noise-or-static-in-my-videos-when-using-an-eye-fi-card/]]>Jun 10th 2009 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/
I'd hate to fill up the 4gb card, but have no problem filling up my 1.5TB hard drive. We shoot a ton of photos of our son. and frequently have friends over for socials.]]>Jun 10th 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/
Thx]]>Jun 11th 2009 12:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/file formats, namely raw, and comes in CF format. I have the eyefi
share and while it's a nice idea, it's unreliable and only trasfers
jpegs. ugh.
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2. EVERY time you boot into windows a stupid, annoying balloon pops up out of the task bar saying "Click Here to open Eye Fi Manager". I only needed to be told once (or maybe even twice) about how to open it. Not hundreds of times. Their official support solution was ridiculous, suggesting that I hack the registry to disable all balloon tips.]]>Jun 17th 2009 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/Jun 12th 2009 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/
Like previously said, good idea, but in reality. 4gigs isn't enough for serious photophiles. And even if you did have ur iPhone (or in my case Nokia N800) set to ad-hoc, it still doesn't auto-purge after successful transfers.

Just gonna stick with my 16gig SDHC card, I think I can spare 10 min. @ the end of the day to swap the card into my laptop and sync. A few more steps to transfer, a LOT less to setup/configure.

Nice idea though.

]]>Jun 13th 2009 9:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/
1) Firmware fail - Cannot install firmware
2) Cards reads - uploads photos fail
3) Card reads - no wireless network found to match, card fails
4) Card unable to accept new wireless network
5) Card corrupt in camera
6) Unable to access filesystem - wth is wrong with you??
7) Unable to use other cardreaders
8) Firmware still an update fail

Losing three weeks of important photos = PRICELESS]]>Jun 14th 2009 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/eye-fi-pro-wireless-sd-card-hands-on/Jul 18th 2009 4:45PM