| Eye-Fi Home Wireless 2 GB Secure Digital Card (EYE-FI-2HM) | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 10 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1502
Category: CE
Publisher: Eye-Fi
Studio: Eye-Fi
Brand: Eye-Fi
Label: Eye-Fi
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 4.8 x 1.4
MPN: EYE-FI-2HM
Model: EYE-FI-2HM
UPC: 899949001045
EAN: 0899949001045
ASIN: B001AD0TGQ
Release Date: June 23, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Wi-Fi Security: Static WEP 40/104/128, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK | | • | Range: 90+ feet outdoors and 45+ feet indoors | | • | Storage Capacity: 2.0GB (1GB is defined as 10^9 Bytes) | | • | Power: advanced power management optimizes use of camera power |
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Product Description
Wirelessly upload photos to your computer with the Eye-Fi Home Wireless SD card. It's as easy as turning on your camera. No cables, cradles, or hassles. The Eye-Fi Home wirelessly connects to your home Wi-Fi network and uploads your pictures automatically. When your computer is turned on, the Card delivers your pictures to the assigned folder on your computer or directly into iPhoto.
Manufacturer Description
A Wireless Memory Card? Yes, there really is Wi-Fi inside that tiny little card. It's going to change the way you take, save and share photos.
It makes your camera a Wi-Fi camera. Upload your photos automatically.
Photos shouldn't be trapped in your camera. Set them free effortlessly and wirelessly. The Eye-Fi Card is a wireless SD memory card for your digital camera. It stores pictures like a standard SD memory card, but also uses your Wi-Fi network to automatically upload http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page from inside your camera to your PC or Mac. No cables, no cradles, no fuss. It also neatly organizes your photo uploads by date in the folder you choose. Key Features - Wireless Uploads to Computer
- 2 GB of storage
How it works
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Won't work without Internet connection October 8, 2008
The idea is great, works smoothly, however it's complete rely on Internet connection, without it, you can't even transfer photos to your local PC.
Not quite there yet September 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
(Based on a few minutes of experimentation.)
Cool idea. Not sure if it's ready for prime time, especially for my target application: the non-tech-savvy, poor-fine-dexterity in-laws.
The one really big gotcha: it copies the photos, but does not delete them from the card after copying them. So what do you do when your card fills up? You could plug the card or camera into a computer and delete pictures, but wasn't the point to avoid that? You could wipe the card using the camera's UI, but are you sure you've copied all of the pictures? (Besides, what if the reason you're doing it is that you've run out of space, and are away from home so you can't copy those last few pictures?) My whole goal is to make the copy process be almost invisible, so that you just don't have to mess around with it... fail.
Range seems quite limited. Connection was iffy from my desk, perhaps 20 feet and a couple of walls from the router. (My PDA connects fine from here.) Since there's no UI on the camera, there's no way to tell that it's trying and failing to connect.
As others have said: The requirement for an Internet connection even for local copy is odd. Not a problem for me, but odd. Not copying videos: Bad.
Because the camera doesn't know what's going on, it might power off during the copy. They have you "optimize" its power settings by disabling automatic shutdown.
It's definitely not going to the in-laws. Not sure if I'll keep it for myself.
 Clever little thing with a snag September 15, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
One would think that wifi uploads from your camera at home would be a very conveniente thing to do. You relax, power on your mac and camera and let them do their thing while you watch TV or read a book or else. In addition you'll never explain to your tech-afraid friends to take out the sd-card, put it in a card-reader, work with the mac to get those pictures uploaded and so forth. So, bottom line at first sight: great gadget. Now then comes the snag: you need to have an online account to setup you eye-fi card. Well, what is this? Since when do I need an online account where all my settings, also my wifi-router settings and pwd, are stored? There is no (none, nile, niente) reason to do so other than for Eye-fi Inc. to collect user and user data... But for what reason? My bottom line is - I'm not happy and do not suggest to buy this product, even if it's a good idea and so forth. But this vendor is too curious and is pulling my leg her... SO, DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT IF YOU VALUE YOUR PRIVACY!
 Works great if you broadcast you SSID September 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This card works great when you get it working. It would seem that you have to broadcast the SSID of your WiFi access point - which is what happens at most hot-spots. I am using it in an HP R707 camera and since the camera stays on in the charging dock it is a great way to just plop the camera in and forget about it. Some time later I can organize the photos. The transfer rate is approxiamtely 800KB/sec to an Office Depot Ativa 802.11g access point.
Brilliant idea, works well, but why... August 31, 2008
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've read about this product in the Wall Street Journal - one of the American news papers who are aware that there is life outside America. I needed a wi-fi camera for one of my customers and considering my very poor experience with the Nikon WT-3 (considered "obsolete" and no longer supported by Nikon, within a year after date of purchase) this seemed like it could fit the bill.
It was easy to setup and works very well indeed. My customer is absolutely delighted with it. I can recommend it without restrain.
But why:
1. Do I need to bother a friend in America to take delivery and forward it to me? This is the 21st century, dear folks at Amazon.
2. Does the support dept of the Eye-fi not hve the courtesy to respond to an email with a pretty simple question (can I use more than one Eye-fi device on the same network/server)?
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