| Eye-Fi Explore Wireless 2 GB Secure Digital Card (EYE-FI-2EX) | 
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Category: CE
Publisher: Eye-Fi
Studio: Eye-Fi
Brand: Eye-Fi
Label: Eye-Fi
Media: Electronics
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 4.8 x 1.4
MPN: EYE-FI-2EX
Model: EYE-FI-2EX
UPC: 899949001052
EAN: 0899949001052
ASIN: B001ACXHXE
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Wi-Fi Security: Static WEP 40/104/128, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK | | • | Range: 90+ feet outdoors and 45+ feet indoors | | • | Storage Capacity: 2.0GB (1GB is defined as 10^9 Bytes) | | • | Power: advanced power management optimizes use of camera power |
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Product Description
For those who tag or organize, who blog or share in real-time, who need to upload here, there, or somewhere else; and for all the rest who are simply passionate about managing, sharing, and saving their memories: there is now the Eye-Fi Explore Wireless SD card. It uploads photos wirelessly to your computer and to the web, of course. But, Eye-Fi Explore also automatically adds geographic location labels to your photos and allows you to upload from more than 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across the nation. Your memories will be easier to search and more fun to share with geo tags, and you'll be able to upload them while on the go.
Manufacturer Product Description
A Wireless Memory Card? Yes, there really is Wi-Fi inside that tiny little card. It's going to change the way you take, save and share photos.
It makes your camera a Wi-Fi camera. Upload your photos automatically.
Photos shouldn't be trapped in your camera. Set them free effortlessly and wirelessly. The Eye-Fi Card is a wireless SD memory card for your digital camera. It stores pictures like a standard SD memory card, but also uses your Wi-Fi network to automatically upload images from inside your camera to your PC or Mac. No cables, no cradles, no fuss. It also neatly organizes your photo uploads by date in the folder you choose. Key Features - Unlimited Geotagging
- Wi-Fi Hotspot Access for 1 year
- Unlimited WebShare Service
- Wireless Uploads to Computer
- 2 GB of storage
Eye-Fi Explore is for those who tag or organize, for those who blog or share in real-time, for those who need to upload here, there or somewhere else, and all the rest who are simply passionate about managing, sharing and saving their memories.
It uploads photos wirelessly to your computer and to the web, of course. But, Eye-Fi Explore also automatically adds geographic location labels to your photos and allows you to upload from more than 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across the nation. Your memories will be easier to search and more fun to share with geo tags, and you'll be able to upload them on the go. How it works Geotagging  | With Geotagging, your photos will be automatically labeled, or tagged, to show where they were taken. Today, tags make searching for photos easier and make sharing them more meaningful, but it's a time-consuming and manual process. With Eye-Fi's Geotagging Service, you won't have to spend your time entering the info. It's done for you when you upload your photo. | |
Using its built-in Wi-Fi, the Eye-Fi Card locates any surrounding Wi-Fi networks as you take pictures. Then, the Eye-Fi Service translates that data into geographic location and adds the information to each picture (in the EXIF data) as it is delivered to the web or your computer. It's as easy as that. You snap the shot and the photo shows up labeled with the city and state in which it was taken.
The coverage area is expanding all the time, as new Wi-Fi access points appear and as the location of those wireless networks are mapped and added to the system. Today, in North America, about 70 percent of the populated areas have been mapped. In Europe, the top 50 metropolitan areas are covered, along with 70 percent of the populated areas in Germany, France and the UK. Coverage is expanding in Western Europe as well as several areas of Asia, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan and other countries.
Certain online photo sites already support geotagging and even have visualization tools that let you map your memories. Check out Flickr, Picasa and SmugMug to see what geotagging can do. Many desktop photo management programs also make good use of geotags as well, including Adobe's Photoshop Elements 6 (PC only), Google's Picasa (PC only), Ovolabs Geophoto (mac only) and Microsoft's Pro Photo Tools (PC only).
Eye-Fi Explore includes unlimited Geotagging.
| HotSpot Access  | With Hotspot Access, you'll be able to upload from more than 10,000 Wayport Wi-Fi hotspots across the US just as easily as at home. You don't need to have your laptop with you or even have an account with the hotspot provider. Your photos will be delivered to your photo-sharing website and to your computer, even if it's thousands of miles away. |
To make this possible and easy, Eye-Fi has worked directly with hotspot provider Wayport. Wayport offers Wi-Fi access at thousands of locations, including most McDonald's restaurants, major hotels, airports, and other locales. To see a map of all the locations in the US, click here.
An Eye-Fi Card with Hotspot Access already includes access to Wayport hotspots. Simply walk into a Wayport location and turn on your camera. Your Eye-Fi Card will recognize the network, connect to it and start uploading your photos while you have a burger or wait for your flight.
If you want to be informed about your uploads, you can choose to receive status updates from Eye-Fi as either email or SMS messages. We'll let you know when you've connected to a supported hotspot network and are uploading and we'll let you know when your upload is finished. And, like all Eye-Fi uploads, if you leave the location before your upload is finished, it will pick up right where it left off the next time you're in a supported location.
Eye-Fi Explore includes 1 year of Wayport Hotspot Access. Eye-Fi Explore users will be able to renew Hotspot Access for $19 per year after the first year. | WebShare  | With WebShare, your photos can be automatically uploaded to your favorite photo sharing, printing, blogging or social networking website. No wasted time sitting in front of your computer. No fussing with upload software. No delay in sharing your new memories with friends and family.
Choose from among more than 20 of the most popular websites and some up-and-comers too. You can upload images privately and | | control if and when they are viewable by others. Many sites even let you edit your photo albums online. And, you can change your preferred upload site at any time. You can even upload to the Web when your computer is turned off. The Eye-Fi Share and The Eye-Fi Explore will upload your photos directly to the Eye-Fi Service through your home Wi-Fi network. We'll deliver them to your photo site and then deliver them to your computer the next time you turn it on. The Eye-Fi Service is secure and encrypted, so your data and photos are safe and private. Eye-Fi Share and Eye-Fi Explore include unlimited WebShare service. Upload and share all you want. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 BUYER BEWARE. YOU WILL LOSE ALL YOUR PICTURES. January 6, 2009
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
THIS IS THE LETTER I WROTE TO EYEFI THIS MORNING:
Hello,
I am writing to let you know that I am returning your most expensive version of the EyeFi card with geotagging ($130+ USD). To describe my experience with your card as disappointing would be a vast understatement. I don't care if you can fix the problem with all of your cards, because the pictures that were taken with this memory stick were irreplaceable. I took approximately 50 pictures at my father's 60th and my only nephew's first birthday party of family and friends, many that I will never see again. I trusted your card to work perfectly. The first 12 or so pictures were uploaded safely, but all the rest were never uploaded and now the card can not be read in any device. I have tried software to recover the data, but the memory stick is simply not recognized in any device. My wife was crushed when she found out that the I can't access the card (I build computers and have never run into this problem with ANY memory card, EVER). I want EyeFi to recover my images and give me a full refund. Please do not send the card back to me as I have lost trust in your company and have no faith in your products.
I wanted to put this message up as a warning to other users considering the purchase of this device. This message will be placed on all websites that I can place a review on this product for, as apparently, I am not the only one with this problem. I have read numerous similar stories like mine in forums and on the web.
Thank you, EyeFi, for the worst Holiday experience.
Stopped working after a few days. December 29, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was able to set it up to use my home network easily enough and it transferred the files just about as quickly as we could take them. A few days later I was taking Christmas photos and it simply stopped working, even as a simple SD card, in the middle of everything. I've tried every camera and PC SD/SDHC card reader I can get my hands on but none of them are able to access the card anymore. I was told there would be no way to recover any of the photos. I've never had any problem with any of the dozen other SD/SDHC cards I've used ranging from 256MB to 16GB.
Worked for 2 days December 28, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This would be a great device if it worked. The card was fully functional for 2 days, then abruptly stopped being recognized by either the camera or the computer I used to set it up. Great disappointment. I have contacted Eye-Fi customer service and will update this post based on their response.
 First it stumbled, then it died... December 10, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The speed with which the card arrived gave a new meaning to two-day shipping. It was ordered on 12/1, and showed up on 12/2. Kudos to Amazon and UPS.
I shot a few photos right away and was able to get them downloaded and geotagged without any trouble. This is my second Eye-fi card (yes, they can be broken), and once you accept the quirkiness of how they move photos around, it does make some sense. Also, being able to get a text message on my cell to tell me the card is finished offloading the newest images is a useful feature, I liked that.
Over the next few days I shot some more pictures, and the geotagging never worked well:
1) One set of photos on 12/4 was tagged with a location 40 miles away.
2) Another set on 12/5 was not tagged at all, even though I was well inside Skyhook's WPS coverage area (according to Skyhook's website).
3) A third set of photos on 12/6 was (oddly) partly geotagged and partly not geotagged. The tagging was accurate, but the images were all shot over ten minutes in and around a neighbor's house, and should all have gotten the same location.
4) I would tell you how the fourth set of photos was geotagged (walking around UNC's campus on 12/7), but after taking a half a dozen shots, the card just plain died. My Canon said it was unusable and locked. My Nikon said it was corrupt, but formatable. My PC could not see it at all. After formatting in the Nikon, it would immediately read as corrupted if I tried to use it in either camera.
So, my experience is that the Eye-fi Explore works just fine as an Eye-fi card, but that the geotagging is a bust: sometimes it does not work at all, sometimes it works wrong. As a bonus, the card died in just five days. I mailed everything back to Amazon yesterday.
The card was a gift. I hate having to return gifts, it's awkward.
Aside from the bad geotagging and the rapid failure, I would have given this card four stars. It still gets two, since it did function just fine as a vanilla Eye-fi card for a few days.
 Geotagging for dummies October 15, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
You might notice some claims of issues for geotagging, you may want to first check if your home is within the skyhookwireless coverage area (the company that provides for the geotagging connection). Their map of coverage areas is available on the following website: http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/coverage.php
Or if you're willing to plug in the common WiFi access points you use in your area if it is not covered, you can do so on the following website:
http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/submit_ap.php
You'll need the address and be connected to the wi-fi to see their Mac-Address so that skyhookwireless can "triangulate" your location.
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