Eye-fi for iPhone & ipad (what do you think)

[iWish]

They say it only works in USA but I am sure there is a way around it. Looks promising and will go on sale the 17th of April 2011.

Eye-Fi's range of wireless memory cards have been giving photographers the ability to send photos from a digital camera to a computer over an existing Wi-Fi network for a few years now. That's great if you're close to your home network but what when you're out and about and want to offload some of those captured pics and vids from your camera? The company's latest Eye-Fi Mobile X2 Card answers the call with a new Direct Mode that allows the card to create its own Wi-Fi network so it can establish a direct connection and upload photos and videos directly to mobile devices such as a smartphone or tablet.

Although Eye-Fi is launching Direct Mode alongside the Eye-Fi Mobile X2 Card, the feature will also be compatible with existing Eye-Fi X2 cards and has been released as a free upgrade for existing Eye-Fi X2 Card users. The feature will be supported by accompanying free mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android device. With many tablets, including the iPad, not sporting an SD card slot, Direct Mode provides a convenient way to transfer content from a camera to a tablet when away from home.

The 8GB Eye-Fi Mobile X2 Card is available now for US$79.99, while the existing Eye-Fi Pro X2 will be reduced from $149.99 to $99.99 from this month.

 

[zamedic]

I have also been looking at these cards. The automatic Geo Tagging is USA only at the moment as it uses a WIFI database to determine where you are, the rest of the features should work fine.

A nice recent development is that the Eye Fi Direct push has been developed for Android and IOs devices - not sure if it would then be possible to use the handsets location to implicitly Geo Tag

 

[iWish]

Going to the States soon so I'll be buying one should there be no issues. I suppose it will replace the connector kit I budgeted for. Hopefully the iMovie app will work with the videos I plan to transfer from my panasonic camera via the eye-fi card.

 

[bwana]

Eye-fi direct mode should be available any day now. I've been using shuttersnitch for the time being but it will be nice to be able to use my eye-fi + ipad away from my network without having to rely on my iPhone and MyWi to establish an adhoc network.