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:
