Sean Fallon reviews the new Pro edition of Eye-Fi’s Wi-Fi-equipped SD cards. The hook is that it has RAW support and ad-hoc connections, which means it no longer needs a router: it can transmit photos directly to a computer.
In a nutshell, everything worked great. As always, setting things up with the Eye-Fi manager was a breeze and within minutes I was sending images and video to my desktop and to various sites across the web. Plus, the addition of selective uploading means that I could pick and choose which photos I wanted to send over the network instead of sending the good and the bad en masse.
At three times the price of a basic model — $150 will buy you a decent Canon point-and-shoot, even — it’s still tempting to wait and see what the cameras that include it built-in will be like.
Hey, what happened to Morning Tech Deals? I miss em!
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Hmmmm… I wonder if there will be a Palm Pre / iPhone app now that allows ad-hoc uploading through your phone?
Instant good quality seizure-proof photos with no huge clunky equipment to tote around.
I was actually thinking Eye-Fi should port its app to iPhone and Pre.
i.e. so you could have a nice camera, uploading immediately to the net or flickr via the phone in your pocket.
That would be really awesome.