Format: SD Card
Storage Capacity: 8GB
Platforms: PC, Mac, iOS, Android
Wireless: 802.11 b/g/n Wi-fi
Services supported: Facebook, MobileMe, Picasa, YouTube, Flickr. Full List here.
Compatible Cameras: 1000+. Full list here.
Price: $US80
Pluses
Stupid easy setup. If you don’t have a router, the X2′s Direct Mode turns itself into a wireless hotspot, for a direct connect to your iOS or Android thing. Then you can flag photos for automatic upload to your computer via the Eye-Fi app when you get reconnected to the Wee-Fees. It’ll offload videos, too, even ripping out the raw .mts file from ever-fickle AVCHD videos. Bonus: The Eye-Fi app also beams photos from your phone’s camera to your computer for you, sans wires.
Minuses
Transfers times from the card to your photo bucket of choice are not insignificant (around 10-20 seconds, and that’s after the 5-10 second warm-up time for the app). Both the iPad app and the desktop app could afford to be less ugly and more user friendly.
If you’re someone who shoots a lot of photos on actual cameras and would like to have them automagically appear on your smartphone or computer, it’s hard not to recommend the Mobile X2. But at $US80, you might first want to consider just how much you’ll really use (or even need) it.
Will
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 11:30 AMYe I used one for some of my photography for a bit. Its really only useful when doing shooting all day in one room, its really nice to just have the photos appear on the nice big ipad screen. However the app is slow, buggy and crashes ALOT. Those complaints can be fixed with an update but still its not ideal. The photos only upload when the camera is on, which I found annoying, pack a spare battery.
john
Friday, May 25, 2012 at 1:50 PMNice idea, but too late for it’s time. Most people take pictures on their phones these days and the pics are automatically synced to the cloud. I use an IPhone all pics synced to icloud and downloaded to all my apple devices. Similarly my android phone syncs photos automatically to picasso.