Shame on your company.”Įyefi says the reason for the End of Life is that older wireless and encryption technologies are no longer safe and appropriate, so they’re dropping support and forcing photographers to move to its newer products with newer technologies.įor photographers wishing to switch to newer Eyefi Mobi cards, Eyefi is offering a 20% discount for up to 3 units. “I would have updated to the Mobi cards in time anyway, but out of principle I will avoid Eye-Fi products in the future and advise my photographing friends to do the same. “That your company would have the gall to sell cards that would be obsolete within a few years is preposterous.” “Receiving your email about removing support for X2 cards this morning has made me furious,” the author writes.
One frustrated customer published an open letter to Eyefi on Hacker News. The built-in Wi-Fi will provide instant transferring of your files from your camera to your.
I own both a Nikon and a Canon DSLR and I have swapped SD cards between. Try the Eye-fi 32GB Mobi Pro SDHC Wi-Fi Memory Card (Class 10). It’s rather unusual for products such as Wi-Fi cards to be bricked completely by the manufacturer, and some photographers are understandably upset about the news. Eye-Fi cards or the specific wireless dongles made by OEM camera makers. The Eyefi software used by older cards will also no longer be updated or supported, so there’s absolutely no guarantee that critical features will continue to work into the future. Selective Transfer will also function if enabled early, but Relayed Transfer will cease to function. Certain functions of your X2 card, such as Direct Mode, may continue to function beyond the End of Life date, but you’ll need to set it up prior to that date.