Photography news, before it happens

Few weeks ago I reported about the strange “disapearing” of Eye-Fi. A reader (thanks Petter!) did some more digging and sent me this detailed report/timeline on what’s going on with the Wi-Fi card manufacturers:

We have three major Wi-Fi-card manufacturers:

• Trek manufactured the Flu-card which Pentax/Ricoh used in their cameras.
• Eye-Fi manufactured their cards together with a cloud service.
• Toshiba had their FlashAir cards.
• Update #1: readers also mentioned the PQI Air card adapter and the new Canon W-E1.
• Update #2: Toshiba announced their new FlashAir cards at the 2017 CP+ show in Japan (more info available here and here)
• Update #3: Toshiba announced new FlashAir W-04 memory cards. Here are the highlights:
  • Enhanced wireless performance
  • Improved read/write speed up to 90MB/s***
  • ‘Eyefi Connected’ feature
  • Up to 64GB Capacity SD Card
  • Supports 4K video recording
  • 5 Years Warranty

Update: on November 18th Ricoh Imaging had renamed the Eye-Fi Cloud service to Keenai. It seems that existing users can still use their Eye-Fi cloud account to log in, but everything (app name and icons) are now all replaced by the new name.

Here is a timeline:

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