The hotspot functionality was useless to me as it mostly covered the US and there wasn’t much use having it in Australia.

If you purchase a card that doesn’t support a function, you can upgrade it to add it however, this will incur a yearly renewal fee. The nice thing is that even though Julie has had her Eye-Fi for a while, she should be able to upgrade the firmware to get the added functionality.Įye-Fi has 3 current models at the time of writing, each with slightly different functionality, with the main differences being memory size, hotspot access, and geotagging. Nice to see a company that stands behind development of its product. Since Julie’s review, there’s been 8 firmware upgrades, so hopefully there’s been some changes to functionality and bug fixes in the updates. I’ll also try and answer some of the comments from the old review that were never answered. There’s been a few changes since then so having just obtained a Connect X2 SD card with wireless photo and video uploads from Eye-Fi (with assistance from Julie), I thought I’d cover some of the features not covered in Julie’s older review either because they weren’t available or because it was a function she didn’t use. Julie last did a review of the Eye-Fi photo-transfer SD cards in May 2010. If you buy something through the links on this page, we may earn a commission at no cost to you. Marry Your Camera to Your Mobile With This Wireless SD Card.Eye-Fi Mobile X2 With 'Direct Mode' Beams Photos to Your iPad.Eye-Fi 'Direct Mode' Send Photos Direct to iPad.

Setting up Eye-Fi Direct Mode with an Apple iPhone or iPad

The geotagging function on the card seems to think that I'm in somewhere called Nan Nan in Thailand. This shouldn't be a problem out in the street, though.įinally, there is one other oddity. And there appears to be no way to force the card to transfer to your iOS device via the home network. Even if you have disabled the network on the card itself, your iOS device won't connect to the Eye-Fi hotspot automatically if it sees another network it recognizes. The only real problem is using the setup in the range of a known Wi-Fi network. I haven't yet tried the combo out and about, but in limited testing it works great, with transfers coming across in seconds and getting saved in the camera roll, ready to be Instagrammed. The camera is set to shoot RAW + JPEG, which lets me upload the RAWs into Lightroom later. I have mine set to receive only JPEGs (in the setting on the iOS app) to keep things fast. Once you're up and running, the transfers work great. You may have to force a reconnect since your iDevice will probably have re-joined your home network in the meantime. If this works, remove the card from your computer and put it in the camera.

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