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Eye-Fi announces 16GB Pro X2 wireless memory card

, Oct 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Eye-Fi's unique line of memory cards have been serving photographers' wireless transfer needs for some time now, but the 8GB maximum the company had on their cards was a huge barrier for some photo snappers. Fortunately, Eye-Fi has now doubled the capacity storage and has released a 16GB model of their Pro X2 memory card. Read The Full Story

Eye-Fi Direct Mode enabled: Squirt shots to your smartphone

, Apr 21st 2011 Discuss [3]

Eye-Fi's Direct Mode has gone live, offering users of the company's WiFi-enabled X2 memory cards the ability to push images direct to the iOS and Android apps. Announced back in January, rather than push images to Eye-Fi's servers first, and then pull them down to a local device, Direct Mode works the other way around and allows you to choose which files get uploaded. Read The Full Story

Eye-Fi Direct Mode shuttles pics straight from camera to phone/tablet

Eye-Fi knows that when it comes to gratification, digital photographers want it instant. Hence the latest addition to the Eye-Fi X2 range of WiFi-enabled memory cards, Eye-Fi Direct Mode, a way to funnel photos straight from your camera to a nearby tablet or smartphone rather than send it via Eye-Fi's servers. Read The Full Story

Eye-Fi View auto-shares photos through online gallery

, Oct 28th 2010 Discuss [0]

Eye-Fi has announced an update to their WiFi SD card service, Eye-Fi View, which promises straightforward web-access of content uploaded through the company's latest Eye-Fi Manager app.  Eye-Fi View basically (and optionally) uploads newly transferred images to an online gallery, where they can be viewed from any internet-connected device. Read The Full Story

Toshiba plan standardized WiFi SDHC cards for digicams

, Jun 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Toshiba are looking to bring the wireless camera storage fight to Eye-Fi's door, with the announcement that they're setting up the "Standard Promotion Forum for Memory Cards Embedding Wireless LAN".  A collaboration with Trek 2000, the SPFMCEWL group would promote a standardized WiFi-enabled SDHC card that would communicate with the camera with cross-manufacturer consistency, wirelessly transferring its 8GB of storage to remote servers or directly to other cameras. Read The Full Story

Eye-Fi Pro X2 Review

Eye-Fi have managed to do – if not the impossible – then then unlikely: make camera storage fun. The new Eye-Fi Pro X2 is an 8GB SDHC memory card that promises to wirelessly transfer your photos and video to your home or work computer without demanding you mess with cables and card readers. It’ll also upload shots automatically to Facebook, Flickr and other online galleries, together with geotagging them, and it’ll do it faster too thanks to WiFi 802.11n and a new chipset. Still, is it worth $149.99? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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Eye-Fi Connect X2 and Explore X2 get WiFi-n

, Mar 23rd 2010 Discuss [0]

Eye-Fi's Pro X2 WiFi-enabled memory card has only been shipping for little over a week but the company has already outed some siblings for it.  The Eye-Fi Connect X2 and Eye-Fi Explore X2 have 4GB and 8GB of storage respectively, and each offer WiFi 802.11n connectivity and Class 6 performance. Read The Full Story

Eye-Fi Center management app finally released

, Mar 18th 2010 Discuss [0]

It's taken them longer than expected, but hot on the heels of their Eye-Fi Pro X2 WiFi-enabled SDHC memory card comes the general release of Eye-Fi Center.  Announced back at CES 2010 in January, the new app supplants the current web-app for management of one or more Eye-Fi cards together with adding in new media sharing functionality. Read The Full Story

Eye-Fi Pro X2 shipping today

, Mar 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

How long does it take to get an 8GB memory card to the market?  If you're Eye-Fi, and the card is the WiFi 802.11n-toting Eye-Fi Pro X2, then it's a couple of months; the company has announced that its latest wireless-enabled memory card is shipping from today, promising faster transfer speeds and improved overall performance. According to the Eye-Fi blog, that's all down to their new X2 engine, which bundles together a 200 MHz ARM926 processor with an MMU, dedicated flash and radio interface engines, and encryption acceleration hardware.  Combined, they're good for improved WiFi-triangulation geotagging accuracy and "Endless Memory", Eye-Fi's new system whereby images and video are automatically deleted from the X2 once the card has verified that they've been correctly uploaded to the server. Read The Full Story

Sanyo XACTI CG110 1080p 14.4MP camcorder outed

, Jan 27th 2010 Discuss [0]

Sanyo Japan have outed another new XACTI high-definition camcorder, the DMX-CG110.  Capable of 1080i 60fps/1080p 30fps video capture together with 14.4-megapixel still images, the GC110 has the familiar pistol-grip form factor Sanyo have become known for, and squeezes in 16GB of onboard memory. Read The Full Story

Eye-Fi Pro X2 packs 8GB, 802.11n, Endless Memory; new desktop manager app released

Eye-Fi have updated their top-spec Eye-Fi Pro WiFi memory card with WiFi b/g/n support and twice the storage.  The new Eye-Fi Pro X2 packs 8GB of flash memory, together with 802.11n along with a redesigned antenna, into a Class 6 SD card form-factor, offering significantly faster uploads for images and video.  The company have also used the Pro X2 to introduce Endless Memory, whereby once an image is confirmed uploaded to a user's gallery, it's automatically deleted from the Eye-Fi card to save space. Read The Full Story

Eye-Fi adds capability to upload video to Facebook automatically

I think one of the coolest accessories for your digital camera or camcorder that saves to SD cards is the Eye-Fi card. I know the thing saves me lots of grief since my wife can never seem to remember how to put pictures on her Facebook page. Eye-Fi announced a new update that adds the ability to upload video to Facebook. Read The Full Story

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