Eye-Fi's new Mobile X2 will beam photos direct to your iPad
Eye-Fi has launched yet another Wi-Fi SD card to coincide with the debut of Direct Mode, which is probably the most exciting thing to happen to SD cards since Eye-Fi first started putting tiny radios in them in the first place.
(Head over to our products site to see our exclusive review of the new Mobile X2 card.)
Direct Mode, first seen in a demo at CES in Las Vegas this January, turns the card into a peer-to-peer Wi-Fi access point. Thus, your iPad, iPhone or any other device can connect to it directly. This lets you beam your photos direct from the camera to the iDevice using Eye-Fi’s iApps.
Previously, doing this required a jailbreak and some third party software, and even then it didn’t work reliably.
Direct Mode will be available as a free firmware upgrade to existing X2 cards sometime in the next week. The new Mobile X2 comes pre-installed with Direct Mode and 8GB memory for $80, and you can pre-order it now.
You may want to think twice before hitting the “order” button, though, as the Eye-Fi Pro has just dropped in price to $100, and for the extra $20 you get RAW support, geo-tagging and hot-spot access. I don’t use my Eye-Fi Pro often as it drains the camera’s battery and the geo-tagging function is horribly clunky. I might just dust it off with this update, though.
Eye-Fi Mobile X2 [Eye-Fi]
See Also:
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- The Eye-Fi Pro and the iPad? Forget About it
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