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Eye-Fi Mobi exceeds my expectations. I like it and recommend it.
By David Elliott Lewis on Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2013
This review is a work in progress. I just received my Eye-Fi Mobi 8GB SDHC Class 10 Wireless Memory Card. After reading just a couple of lines of instruction printed on its packaging, I was able to quickly set it up and put it to first use. I am using it inside my Canon EOS Rebel T3i camera to transfer photos to my Samsung Galaxy Note II phone. To set up the card, I had to visit the Google Play store and then search for a needed app using the key word "Eye-Fi". The first app on the search results list was the correct one. I installed the 5mb Eye-Fi app on my phone and then opened it. The app immediately prompted me to type in a 10 character alpha-numeric activation code that was printed on my Eye-Fi card's plastic clamshell case. You will want to record this 10 character sequence of numbers and letters somewhere safe in case you ever need to use this card with another phone or WiFi enabled computer. Note that as Canon turns its Eye-Fi service off by default, I also had to go into my camera's settings and switch it back on. Not all camera brands require this step, however. This is a Canon specific issue. Once my camera was instructed to use its Eye-Fi card, I was ready to go. I took my first photo which automatically transferred to my phone. It was that easy. Having suffered many frustrating previous episodes in getting new technology to work as advertised, I was very pleased that everything worked as expected. I can now capture high quality images with my DSLR camera and then immediately and easily share them on my facebook page, Google+ account, Twitter feed, Google Drive, Picassa account and/or also email/MMS them. I like the immediacy of it all. If I can share quickly, I am more likely to do so. While I am currently very satisfied, I will report back with an update after I gain more experience with this card. As of now, I highly recommend it.
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This is the worst card reader that you could possibly buy
By J. Rand on Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2013
Here is the dream: 1. Take photos with camera using the Eye-Fi Mobi. 2. Have iPhone in pocket. 3. Download the Eye-Fi App, and activate. 4. Look on iPhone and find all my new photos! Yay!!! Here's the reality: 1. Take photos with camera using the Eye-Fi Mobi. 2. Have iPhone in pocket. 3. Download the Eye-Fi App, and activate. 4. Nothing happens. 5. Look online, realize that the camera needs to take lots of photos to activate the Eye-Fi, so take more photos. 6. Nothing happens. 7. Look online, realize that the camera needs to be activated somewhere in the menus to turn on Eye-Fi. 8. Make changes to camera. 9. Find the Eye-Fi wireless signal and connect iphone to the signal. 10. Take more photos randomly just to try to turn the damn thing on. 11. Nothing happens. 12. Get annoyed, pull card out of camera, and plug it into a handy card reader that you've used 100 times to download photos into your computer. 13. Nothing happens. 14. Look online, find out that Eye-Fi doesn't work with most card readers, and the only way (theoretically -- although at this point that is unproven) to get photos off the card is to use the wi-fi system. 15. Take more photos. 16. Realize something is happening -- YAY! Card is working. So easy and simple. Took me two hours to do what takes five minutes. PROGRESS! 17. Realize that Eye-Fi only downloads pictures, and won't download videos taken by my camera, which are in simple format. So no videos. Videos are now lost for all time. 18. Try downloading photos to another iPhone, because that's kind of the idea of this kind of connectivity -- to SHARE! 19. Realize that Eye-Fi will only download the photos once. 20. Look for packaging to return this horror show of a product. It's really the worst thing I've ever owned. I wish I could give it negative stars: * Documentation is terrible. * Online help is terrible. * Does not work intuitively. * Card doesn't work with standard readers, so the only way to get photos off it is to use their system. * Card doesn't download standard videos to iPhone. * Card will only work intermittently, depending on how many photos you've taken -- doesn't do it as you snap them. * Card will only download the photos once, so you only get one crack at them. This is the second time that Eye-Fi has suckered me into buying their products. The first one was terrible too, but that was three years ago and I figured they'd gotten their act together. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, my bad. I hate myself for buying this. It's too late for me. Save yourself. Never, ever, ever buy one of these.
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