Eye-Fi Share 2 GB Wi-Fi SD Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-2GB (OLD VERSION) by Eye-Fi
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Digital camera reviews of Eye-Fi Share 2 GB Wi-Fi SD Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-2GB (OLD VERSION)
Digital camera Review: Don't trust your precious pics to this card!
Summary: 1 Stars
My husband bought this for me for Christmas 2007 after I saw it on the Today Show. I thought it would be the coolest thing. We left for Disney World in January and I thought this the perfect opportunity for the first use. If I only knew what headaches it would cause! After about 25 pictures being taken on a Kodak EasyShare camera ( which I was told the card would be compatible with) the card would not take anymore pictures and kept saying on screen that the card needed to be formatted ( which I had done the day I received it as instructed in directions ). Needless to say I was upset, but not as much as when I got home and called tech support. They tried to do everything in the world over the phone to fix the problem. They told me they had been having trouble with Kodak cameras with this card! They said they could not do anything for me, but send me another card. That did not make any difference to me,because we have been to Disney World many times, but this set of pics were the most special! My 6 year old son has been a Star Wars fanatic since he was 3 and they have a Jedi Training Acadamy and he was chosen to be in it! So I had all those pics of him fighting with his light saber and several pics of him fighting DARTH VADER! He also had his pic made with his jedi master! It was a dream come true for him and I wanted to have them framed for him. But, because this defective card failed, I could do nothing and we will never have them! They even tried to send them to the tech guys at the company and they could not retreive my pics either. I would think if you make a product, you could fix it or open it to transfer pics to a CD. Guess not! So, I was told today JULY 23,2008 that they were sorry they could not do their job! I sent the replacement they sent me back and got a refund because I would not risk losing anymore precious memories! Be careful with this camera Review: EYE FI is wonderful!Summary: 5 Stars Eye-fi cards is a wonderful product that is easy to use and makes it so much easier to download the photos you have taken vs having photos live in your camera until you can find time to connect and download. Plus downloading to both the HD and an online photo sharing site just saves time.
Digital camera Review: EYE-FI makes Wi-Fi a little more friendly
Summary: 5 Stars
It doesn't ship with a CD, just the SD card and a USB adapter used only for configuring the device. The software, both for PC and Mac was on the card, and installing, at least on the Mac, was a snap!
Configuration was trivially easy on my Mac laptop, probably in large part because it was a laptop and already had its wireless connection configured. The Eye-FI card cleverly and quietly sucked down the wireless configuration data from my laptop and configured itself.
The only thing I wasn't prepared to do as part of the installation was select a photo site to which Eye-FI would automatically upload photos. Instead, there's an option to only copy them to the computer on which you configured Eye-FI. This works great, by the way!
I was initially concerned about range, because it seemed to require setting the camera near the wireless router before pictures would upload, but by the third picture, it was able to transfer them from 15 yards and through a wall.
Digital camera Review: EYE-Fi Review by Luther M Beal
Summary: 4 Stars
I love the idea of the EYE-Fi card. I like it so much I bought three (3) cards, but I was disappointed to learn I can connect and register only one to my computer. I wish you would fix it so that one could own several of these at a time. When traveling, I often fill several memory cards. The first card I had no problem setting up, but the second and third I had to call for tech help and it took many ours. A nice young man tried to help, but his knowledge was limited and he had to wait for the help of those with more experience.Digital camera Review: Eager marketing ruins a good idea.
Summary: 1 Stars
Okay, part of the description above, verbatim, is:
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Upload to Computer
Uploading photos to your computer requires that your computer be turned on and running the Eye-Fi Manager software. When it detects the Eye-Fi Card on the network, photos will be uploaded into the folder on your computer that you choose. You don't have to bother with cables or camera software; everything is automatic.
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NOT SO! The card uploads to your NETWORK. So having a laptop with a wireless capability is not enough. You need a router and it has to be wireless. Add in another $100.
I got this card because I travel a lot. I am in Tajikistan right now even as I write this. Not only do I not have access to the wireless network, even if I did I would not trust my information to it. I wanted to carry my laptop with me and upload while having lunch. NOPE! WON'T WORK! Not unless I have access to the router and the router allows the camera to connect. For security reasons a lot of wireless routers are locked down, so you need YOUR router. Not feasible.
So it is like the software on your computer will "suck" the pictures off the card but USING the wireless router which you need.
I am bothered that the people who write this up neglected to say that "ad hoc" connections will not work. You still have to connect the card to the laptop via a little card reader. The good news is that they give you a card reader too. The bad news is that it is so far that it blocks other USB ports beside it. Way to go Eye-fi. You have a good idea but did not think it out.
- Wireless router needed.
- You need the router to be able to receive the connection.
- Will NOT work wirelessly with your computer as stated in the ad.
- Tech support web site even admits there is no ad hoc capability.
- Included card reader is so fat it blocks whatever is beside it.
- You can take your laptop to a friend's house but need to reconfigure the card for their network in order to to use it.
REFUND TIME!