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Eye-Fi Home Wireless 2 GB Secure Digital Card (EYE-FI-2HM) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Eye-Fi
Category: CE
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $70.24
You Save: $9.75 (12%)
New (5) from $69.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
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
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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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 9 more reviews...
 Not quite there yet September 23, 2008
7 out of 7 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
6 out of 9 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!
 Great Product! July 23, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is awesome - requires minimal setup, automatically locates wireless networks, allows manual SSID entry, supports Open, WEP, WPA and WPA2 security. It has a good range, uploads fast (4 seconds for 2MB photos). Works great for batched photos. It automatically creates subfolders labeled by date of upload within the configured folder on the destination PC. One drawback is that it requires registration on their domain in order to perform the setup. It looks like the SD card becomes registered to a single user account on the Eye-Fi website. This can be changed by the user that performs the initial setup.
Makes life easier ... mostly July 25, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Pros:
works and does what it says it will do and does it pretty fast.
Cons:
can't upload videos wirelessly, can only upload to one computer at a time (ie: if you have two computers that should be receiving the pictures, you're out of luck)
NOTE: if you have AVG Free Antivirus as i did, you wont be able to upload your pictures wirelessly until you disable or remove your anti-virus.
Even though i have way more cons than pros, i do greatly enjoy this product ... before i had this, it would take me weeks to upload pictures to my computer as i would just be too lazy to find the cables and whatnot. The camera's battery life does get a little shorter when Eye-Fi is in it but it's not THAT big a difference, if you ask me.
 Good idea - if it works for you. July 22, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
We purchased 2 of these cards. Spent several days trying to get them to work w/ our Nikon D80 and D40x. Would not work with either camera. Eye-Fi tech support was unable to get them working either - despite several days of trying. Tech support finally blamed it on our AT&T high speed internet service. Product seems like a great idea - IF you can get it to work with your equipment. Might be best to call Eye-Fi tech support before you purchase and see if cards are compatible with your equipment (including cameras, laptops, and internet service). Finally gave up and returned product for refund.
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