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User Submitted Eye-Fi Share Wireless 2 GB SD Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-2GB ReviewsDate: 2008-11-04 Great product for bloggers I'm a gadget guy, but still found this really fun and amazing: Snap your picture and it's on Flickr (or where ever you choose) in less than 15 seconds. If you shoot infrequently, this is overkill, and in fact, you have to turn off or slow down your auto turnoff so it can run down the batteries. However, if you keep a camera in your pocket all the time, and like sharing pictures, you'll love this. Remember, though, you have to have wi-fi, so it only works when you are connected. If I shoot while I'm out, it won't upload until I get home and re-connect to my home network. Eye-Fi has another product that works anywhere, I believe. Date: 2008-11-01 Eye-Fi 2GB Card Save your money and buy a card from San Disk for about 1/5th the cost. Card worked O.K. until they did an update and since then I have been unable to download wirelessly. I can only get my pictures by removing the card and inserting it into the reader and plugging it into my computer, this I paid $79 dollars for? As bad as this card is it is only topped by Eye-Fi's support or should I say non-support. There is nothing online that addresses this problem and forget emails they never respond. Their ads seem to good to be true and they are in my case. Date: 2008-10-31 Eye -Fi Wireless Camera Card This works as advertised and is very easy to setup....My only negative comment would be it comes apart very easily, so handle with care !!! Date: 2008-10-26 Works great! I bought this item along with a CF to SD converter so I could use it with my Canon Rebel XT. It works like a charm - my wife calls it 'magic'! We used to leave the pictures on the camera for months and now with the eye-fi, the pictures are instantly uploaded on my PC and to my Picasa web albums. It is awesome! Date: 2008-10-25 Would be great, if it were just hardware From a hardware standpoint this is absolutely awesome, and I love it, but sadly, this is highly software dependent, and EyeFi the company gets in the way. Hardware: robust enough; good enough speed for a DSLR, but not great: it's on par with any of the cheap but good sd cards; wifi speed is again good enough for what it does, but I doubt it ever reaches a full 5MB/s transfer, and it gets interrupted all the time, causing some images to take 3 or 4 attempts to be transferred, and others to not be transferred at all. If it worked without their draconian software, this would earn it an easy 2.5/5 stars, maybe 3/5 if the wifi was more stable. Software: this is where everything falls down. Their software is the only way to get _any_ of the features of this card. It's a combination of a local only web app and a small native applet that downloads the files and stores them. That sounds fine, BUT: It will only work if the machine it's on has internet access. Thanks to that, it will stop working if it detects there is a firmware OR a software update. Software updates happen fairly regularly. If their servers are down, or are unreachable, you can't even configure your eyefi card, much less use it (I'm experiencing that right now as I try to change the wireless password it has stored). The applet is poorly written, it crashes periodically. The web app is poorly written, it frequently stalls, misrenders important segments and it's never completely clear about what it's doing. For all you or I can tell, it may be opening up my machine to 101 security holes, or it may be uploading random thumbnails to their server for quality control. You don't know, I don't know, their docs never make it clear. Why the software is so restrictive becomes more clear when you start using the software. You see, many of the EyeFi's most attractive features are only available on a subscription basis. If you don't have a subscription, there's buttons next to each blocked function trying to get you to buy it. If EyeFi goes under, your $100 memory card is now just a plain, unimpressive 2Gig card that uses a little more battery than a normal card. They want you spend $100 on a 2gig memory card that requires you to buy a subscription to use it's features. That's just not right. If eyefi decides to release software that lets owners of the cards use their hardware in a reasonable, non restrictive fassion, then it would be an awesome, 5/5 star item. They don't seem like they will get there, so wait to buy one until some kind, bored soul publishes hacking instructions. Then we can use the hardware we legally purchased how we see fit. Again, don't bother buying it unless you really can't live without it.
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