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The WiFi-enabled SD card wizards at Eye-Fi already have a mobile app
kicking around that lets you upload shots from your phone to the
cloud, but their relationship with mobile is about to get a whole lot
cozier with the introduction of Direct Mode. Basically, Direct Mode
lets the Eye-Fi card in your camera communicate directly with your
tablet or phone -- with Eye-Fi software installed, of course -- giving
you direct and immediate access to the photos that are on your camera
without the need to either cable up or first allow the card to upload
the images to a photo sharing service before they can be pulled back
down on the mobile device. Granted, the cameras inside phones are
getting better by the day, but most of them still don't come anywhere
near serious point-and-shoot quality -- and that seems to be the angle
Eye-Fi's trying to attack here, making it dead simple to share your
"real" camera photos just as quickly as you would had you taken them
with your phone itself. Look for it as a free upgrade for Eye-Fi's
existing line of X2 cards "later in 2011." Free's nice, eh? Follow the
break for the press release.
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