Eye-Fi Home Wireless 2 GB Secure Digital Card (EYE-FI-2HM)

by Eye-Fi

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 4.8 x 1.3 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001AD0TGQ
• Item model number: EYE-FI-2HM
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Transfer your photos wirelessly from your camera to your computer with the convenient Eye-Fi Home SD wireless memory card. It's easy. Simply turn your camera on near your wireless home network, or other configured networks, to quickly transfer all of your photos or just those that you select--all without the need for cables or cradles. You are backed up instantly. The Home card is compatible with most digital cameras and has a full two gigabytes of memory, so you can store lots of great shots. Installation is quick and easy.

Overview The Eye-Fi Home features: Simple and easy wireless transfer of photos from camera to computer for quick backup Streamlined photo organization Compatible with thousands of cameras available today 2GB of memory for storage of up to 1000 photos Easy set up

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Easy Wireless Transfer of Photos from Camera to Computer When you use the Eye-Fi Home wireless card, you won't have to hassle with cables to upload your photos. This convenient little card easily connects with your wireless home network, or other networks (you can add up to 32), for simple transfers to your PC or Mac computer. Now you're safely backed up, without the clutter of cables.

Photo Organization Made Easy With the wireless Home card, photos are automatically organized into date-based folders, so your pictures are efficiently organized. You'll save time and eliminate frustration by easily finding that great shot.

Widely Compatible Whether you want to get started with wireless for your existing camera or a new camera, chances are that the Home card is compatible with whatever you choose. This card has been tested and proven to work with thousands of digital cameras.

Stores up to 1000 Images The Home card not only transfers your images wirelessly, but it packs a solid two-gigabyte capacity, easily holding up to 1000 images. No need to worry about running out of space.

Set Up in Minutes The Home card is quick and easy to install. Most users are enjoying the convenience of wireless in a matter of minutes. It's that simple.

Requirements An SD- or SDHC-compatible digital camera Computer with Windows XP/Vista/Win7 or Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 100MB of free space Wi-Fi router compatible with 802.11 b/g Broadband Internet connection Internet browser: Explorer 7 (Windows only), Firefox 2 and 3 (Windows and OS X), or Safari 3 (OS X 10.4 - 10.6) What's in the Box Eye-Fi Home 2GB, SD wireless memory card; Eye-Fi Manager software; USB card reader; and Setup Guide.

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Comparison Chart

MEMORY CAPACITY 2 GB         4 GB       8 GB           WIRELESS UPLOADS Photos Videos     RAW         COOL FEATURES Online Sharing   Geotagging       Hotspot Access       Ad Hoc Transfers         X2 ENGINE SDHC Class 6

Product Description

The Eye-Fi Home wirelessly connects to your home Wi-Fi network and uploads your pictures automatically. When your computer is turned on, the Card delivers your pictures to the assigned folder on your computer or directly into iPhoto.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cool and Clever Product...Ignore the Nay-sayers!, October 22, 2008

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Salil Maniktahla "Salil" (Arlington, VA.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eye-Fi Home Wireless 2 GB Secure Digital Card (EYE-FI-2HM) (Personal Computers)

For starters, I researched the heck out of this thing before I bought it. The average ratings made me a little leery of trying it out, but the concept seemed interesting and great enough that I couldn't help it, so I bought one to use with my Canon SD1100 IS.

It's been great.

Pros:
Easy setup. No more wires for uploading pics. Works with practically any photo service (I post my pics to Facebook in near-realtime). Great fun, and it's surprising how much more likely I am to use the camera knowing that I really don't have to plug it in and upload the pics. I just turn it on when I get home, and a few minutes later, I edit the album details online.

Speed is fine. You're really only limited by your upload speed of your ISP. I have FIOS, so it's pretty darn fast.

Cons:

Mostly what other people have already noted. You can't upload video. This is not the huge problem you'd think it is. You basically wind up plugging in the camera when get home after you took video. Not exactly like you're losing anything, you had to do that before anyway.

The pictures are downloaded from the Eye-Fi service to a folder you specify, but within that folder they're created with the date in the following format: "October 22nd, 2008" which means folders don't sort right unless you sort by folder create date or modified date. That's kind of a pain.

To the user above who thinks Eye-Fi only wants you to create an account to violate your privacy: don't be paranoid. Their privacy policy looks pretty reasonable to me. I'd strongly suggest you read it for yourself before signing up, just so you know.[...]

All in all, I'm happy with it, and more pleased than reading some of the overly-cautious reviews would have led me to believe I'd be. It's not perfect, but it's pretty darn good.

35 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not quite there yet, September 22, 2008

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Jordan Brown (Granada Hills, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eye-Fi Home Wireless 2 GB Secure Digital Card (EYE-FI-2HM) (Personal Computers)

(Based on a few minutes of experimentation.)

Cool idea. Not sure if it's ready for prime time, especially for my target application: the non-tech-savvy, poor-fine-dexterity in-laws.

The one really big gotcha: it copies the photos, but does not delete them from the card after copying them. So what do you do when your card fills up? You could plug the card or camera into a computer and delete pictures, but wasn't the point to avoid that? You could wipe the card using the camera's UI, but are you sure you've copied all of the pictures? (Besides, what if the reason you're doing it is that you've run out of space, and are away from home so you can't copy those last few pictures?) My whole goal is to make the copy process be almost invisible, so that you just don't have to mess around with it... fail.

Range seems quite limited. Connection was iffy from my desk, perhaps 20 feet and a couple of walls from the router. (My PDA connects fine from here.) Since there's no UI on the camera, there's no way to tell that it's trying and failing to connect.

As others have said: The requirement for an Internet connection even for local copy is odd. Not a problem for me, but odd. Not copying videos: Bad.

Because the camera doesn't know what's going on, it might power off during the copy. They have you "optimize" its power settings by disabling automatic shutdown.

It's definitely not going to the in-laws. Not sure if I'll keep it for myself.

[ Update: I returned it. ]

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Product!, July 23, 2008

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R. Painter (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eye-Fi Home Wireless 2 GB Secure Digital Card (EYE-FI-2HM) (Personal Computers)

This is awesome - requires minimal setup, automatically locates wireless networks, allows manual SSID entry, supports Open, WEP, WPA and WPA2 security. It has a good range, uploads fast (4 seconds for 2MB photos). Works great for batched photos. It automatically creates subfolders labeled by date of upload within the configured folder on the destination PC. One drawback is that it requires registration on their domain in order to perform the setup. It looks like the SD card becomes registered to a single user account on the Eye-Fi website. This can be changed by the user that performs the initial setup.