Comments on: Are Smart SD Chips the New Thing in Digital Photography http://thomashawk.com/2006/04/are-smart-sd-chips-new-thing-in.html Sat, 26 May 2012 02:31:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Fergus Macdonald http://thomashawk.com/2006/04/are-smart-sd-chips-new-thing-in.html/comment-page-1#comment-14783 Fergus Macdonald Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:03:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=2102#comment-14783 Now that is the way forward - it means that cameras don't have to have WiFi inbuilt, instead your computer or printer can just connect with your laptop and 'hey presto'.<br /><br />You currently get SD cards that snap in half to insert into USB ports, and you get SD card sized WiFi dongles (for the Treo etc), but a combination of the two, with a decent amount of space for photos will prob still be at least a year or two off (to make it a reasonable cost effective alternative to a card reader). Now that is the way forward – it means that cameras don’t have to have WiFi inbuilt, instead your computer or printer can just connect with your laptop and ‘hey presto’.

You currently get SD cards that snap in half to insert into USB ports, and you get SD card sized WiFi dongles (for the Treo etc), but a combination of the two, with a decent amount of space for photos will prob still be at least a year or two off (to make it a reasonable cost effective alternative to a card reader).

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