The Eye-fi is going to get new cousins – the company has introduced two more versions of the card, and rechristened the original one – all of them are scheduled to hit the stands on June 6.
The different features of the Eye-fi Explore, Share and Home sure give me a better choice of features. The Explore is the one that has me squirming to get my hands on it. This one packs a punch with Wi-fi Positioning System (like GPS but uses wifi networks to position itself) and a year’s connectivity with wi-fi hotspots around the country.

Imagine you are out for coffee with your buddy and laughing at him balancing the coffee cup on his head (he will probably spill it on his shirt soon). Of course, you dig out your digi and click a pic. Then you have to wait till you reach home, connect to your wi-fi network and upload the photos to share them with all your friends and get a laugh out of it.

Wait a minute, all those photographs are already on your networking site, and your friends are ROTFL posting funny comments on the pictures. Ah, that’s the work of the Eye-fi Explore! The smart flash card can connect to about 10,000 wifi hotspots across the country and upload your pics through them to the photosharing site of your choice. So while you were still finishing coffee, the Explore uploaded your pictures to the site of your choice by connecting through the wifi available in the shop.

And Explore geotags the photos too, adding information about the location where the photograph was taken. Now the wi-fi positioning system will work best where there are multiple access points available, so of course it will point out your location more accurately in urban areas than when you go vacationing to somewhere out of civilization’s reach. And since the wi-fi connectivity is only for a year, I guess you have to dish out a subscription fee for continued access (uh, that sucks!)

The other new version, Home, is a downscaled version of the Eye-fi which can wirelessly transfer pictures to your computer but not to any website (it is far cheaper than the other two too). The third flash card is the Eye-fi Share, a rechristened version of the original Eye-fi with the same features.

There’s still over a fortnight to go before I get my hands on these new Eye-fis. Let’s see whether they are as good as they are being hyped. Keep watching this space and if you missed the review of the original Eye-fi, you can find it here.

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