When Eye-Fi, introduced their 2 Gig Eye-Fi card about a year ago, it was $99 for the standard card. It provided WiFi transfer to your computer or a photo sharing site. The company later added two new models, the $79 Eye-Fi Home (for computer transfer only), and a $129 Eye-Fi Explore (which added GPS encoding to the standard model).
Starting Oct. 5, owners of the Home card can get the same Web-sharing feature for an annual fee of $9.99. The Eye-Fi Home can also be updated to use the Skyhook geotagging service with an annual service fee of $14.99. Users can use more than 10,000 Wayport hotspots with an annual service fee of $14.99.
Eye-Fi will also double the speed of the card’s wireless transfer, from the current 350KB/s to 700KB/s with its free firmware update on October 5th.
The cost of the Eye-Fi Home is apparently being reduced to $59, while the Eye-Fi Share may be $79. Eye-Fi Share can automatically upload your photos to online photo services like Facebook, Flickr, Snapfish, and others.
