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it's obviously some amazing tech but are people actually forking out]]>Jan 7th 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/
While I already have a 1st gen version... I could not be up-sold due to the annoying (1 change a new card and sell it for the same price) deal.

So, I waited. Glad I did, to expensive to keep swapping. BUT, this could be the ONLY card I'll need for some time!

@gerphimum I have not taken my current eye-fi out of the camera since it's been put in. just keep recharging the camera. Old card bat life is decent. (we'll see 'bout the new one). I can't imagine it's much different since it's only active when your camera is on (no idle battery drain).

I get free geo-tagging just by using the old trial smug-mug service. Originally (and may still) they gave a free smug-mug trial with free geo-tagging while you used smug-mug. Well, by leaving the service on, (even after the smug-mug trial is over) you still get the geo-tagging free and the images load to your machine fine (who cares about the smug-mug upload). I see little errors on their web page when it fails to upload to smug-mug but didn't care since my local and ftp transfer worked fine (still does).

As for FTP... simple... just setup a network drive on your machine and away it goes (wherever you want).

@va jj it deletes the last image(s) on the card, so I'd suspect (besides attempted checks to be sure it did upload correctly, you'd see the image first and or mess with it somehow on a 'puter before it's deleted (it's 8GB after all). Even taking HD and or raw you'll still get some decent numbers off that.

@optimusprimed it's a web interface that sets-up the card. You plug the card into a machine with web capability, and the settings are written to the card (kinda like a firmware upgrade) at that time. When you take the card out of the 'puter it knows what to do by the settings you transfered to it.

Hope my long reply was more helpful than annoying. :)]]>Jan 7th 2010 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/Jan 7th 2010 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/Jan 7th 2010 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/Jan 7th 2010 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/Jan 7th 2010 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/
It's a great bit of tech though, impressive that they manage to cram so much in.]]>Jan 7th 2010 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/

WOOOOHPS.]]>Jan 7th 2010 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/I've been studying the internals of the last Pro series card the last couple weeks. One thing that happens when a file is transferred to the desktop is the desktop software returns whether the transfer was successful or not so there at least is a double check - the card knows it sent the data, the pc acknowledges it received it and if it is valid or not.]]>Jan 8th 2010 12:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/Jan 7th 2010 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/Jan 7th 2010 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/I have a 4GB WiFi explore. You plug the Eye-Fi card into your PC with a USB adaptor that comes with the card (though any USB/SD adaptor will work). Config is handled through the Eye-Fi Manager web-based app: you can set up SSIDs/WEP keys, links to photo-sharing sites, and various other options. It's pretty seamless.]]>Jan 7th 2010 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/Jan 7th 2010 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/I wonder why SD cards are all largely the same color anyway, weird, although I think kingston or somebody had beige/white ones, for a bit, but most all I've seen are darkblue or black.


]]>Jan 7th 2010 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/Jan 7th 2010 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNT9eqNe4NQ]]>Jan 7th 2010 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/1) Could I just stick one of these guys into my laptop and have an instant local NAS to share files (without a need for ad-hoc networking)
2) Is there any security or encryption on these. I can just imagine a scene in a Bond film or Sandra Bullock hacker movie with somebody at an Airport, Times Square, or risque vegas hotel lobby just flushing thousands of no-longer-private photos and videos onto their personal laptop.]]>Jan 7th 2010 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/1) It doesn't serve files like a NAS - it doesn't have a gui to view/retrieve selected files from the card. The card sends out signals looking for a proper response and once received it starts transmitting the pictures to that ip. The best you could use it for in a laptop type scenario would be to copy photos to it and have them retransmit to a PC running the Eye-Fi software.
2) There is some security. Basically the Eye-Fi only transmits to SSID's you tell it to - so don't use/select a factory SSID. Additionally (if you were to select a factory SSID and your neighbor had the same SSID) there is another layer of security which is that the card looks for an encrypted response back to a query it sends out and that response is tied to a unique ID on each Eye-Fi card. To hack one you'd want to know the card's ID as well as what SSID's it tries to connect to as well as run the Eye-Fi desktop software (or emulate it).]]>Jan 8th 2010 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/Pre-ordered @ Amazon yesterday - but still looking for a better price than MSRP or at least some "cash back."

Finally an Eye Fi card with decent space, Class 6 speed + RAW and video support. The 802.11n is a bonus. Sure, It's pricey compared to a regular class 6 8GB card, but worth it just to not have to remove my SD card to import new pics to the computer. Hope I'm not disappointed.]]>Jan 7th 2010 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/eye-fi-802-11n-pro-x2-hands-on/Jan 8th 2010 7:31AM