Eye-Fi joins with Lexar for licensed Wi-Fi memory cards

By Will Greenwald on 11 January 2008

Tags: ces 2008 us | eye-fi | lexar | memory cards | sd | wifi | wireless

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Wireless memory card company Eye-Fi just announced a partnership with Lexar to develop future products.

According to an announcement on Tuesday at CES, Eye-Fi will combine its wireless technology with Lexar's flash memory and branding to produce a Lexar wireless SD card.

We spent some time with the original Eye-Fi Card back in November, and were pleased with what we saw. For a first effort at a new consumer device, the Eye-Fi Card worked as advertised and wirelessly uploaded photos to both local computers and online photo sharing sites with minimal fuss. Hopefully this will remain the case as wireless Lexar cards start to ship.

The branding and interface might be slightly different, but since both products will use the same basic Eye-Fi technology, they should be similar and fairly direct to use.

The original Eye-Fi card can't access public hot spots (hotspots must be registered on the card before it can connect), but perhaps future Lexar/Eye-Fi cards will see expanded Wi-Fi compatibility.

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