Some of you might be familiar with Eye-Fi, as they make storage cards that can link wirelessly to the user’s computer. They recently got an application and an upgrade to customers in Europe.
The best that the Eye-Fi could do before was peer-to-peer applications between cameras and computers, but this next update will create a Direct Mode, so that the card will create its own hotspot.
This means that devices running the company’s aforementioned app on an operating system like Android can pull photos from the Eye-Fi card and put them directly on their phone.
Okay, I think that this is pretty cool. This Direct Mode will all be free, and shoudl roll out later this year. It definitely puts phone cameras out of work if people can just do the whole “download from their camera to their phone thing”. However, you have to ask: which one is simpler?
Tags: Direct Mode, Eye-Fi, Eye-Fi Direct Mode
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