Here’s how it works: The Eye-Fi sets up a little ad-hoc network; the smartphone app connects to it; pictures are transfered to the smartphone; pictures are uploaded to anywhere and everywhere, via the phone’s connection. It’s pretty quick:
It’s a simple concept that probably wasn’t too difficult to pull off, but the effect is totally transformative. With this app, every photo you take with any Eye-Fi-equipped camera can be uploaded as long as your phone has an active data connection. Your DSLR is a mobile phone camera, now.
The Android and iPhone apps are due later this year (Eye-Fi couldn’t get more specific than that) and will be a free update.
Jamie Carl
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 11:54 AMWhat do you mean ‘soon’??? I do this with my D300s and Eye-fi PRO X2 right now and have been since I bought it a few months ago. It wasn’t even a difficult thing and I just set the phone up as a Wifi access point for it to work.
This sounds like it’s doing things in reverse.
The Android app will be helpful though as there isn’t much out there at the moment that is ‘decent’.