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Eye.Fi is building 802.11g wireless (WiFi) networking into standard sized SD memory cards. They are targeting the digital camera market. Details are a little thin at the moment but this might be amazingly cool. My question is, how will this work? I mean, okay, I pop this SD card into my camera so now it has WiFi. But how do I use it? How do I configure it? My camera's software has no idea it is there. This part doesn't make any sense to me yet. My guess is that it can only connect with a computer that is running some custom eye.fi software which would sort of defeat the point (if I'm near my own computer I could just plug my camera in - I want WiFi so that when I'm out walking around the city I can use all the open networks to be uploading my pictures in real time.)
Kodak and Nikon both have WiFi camera models, but they suffer from the same problem I describe above. What we need is a WiFi camera that can find and connect to random open access points and then upload (probably smtp) to where ever I want on the net.