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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Eye-Fi is the one I was thinking of. But, sony could work with some one to OEM it, or do it themselves. To me making it an add-on accessory is a better option and more choices for revenue. If they build it in and jack up the reader $50 sales could drop. As an add-on they could sell it to current 500/505 owners too.
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The Eye-fi card is specifically intended to allow digital cameras to upload photos to photo sharing sites. It's not a general purpose Wifi card.
It's probably cheaper for them, all told, to build it in. That's increasingly the trend. Palm's TX unit features built in Wifi, ranter than using the Palm card. New Pocket PC models have built-in Wifi. The chipsets to do it are available and easy enough to integrate onto the motherboard, with SDKs to help vendors develop drivers.
And built-in cards avoid the problem of the antenna portion that sticks out of the SD slot and can break off, and the issue of the user losing the card.
I understand your feelings, but I don't see it happening that way.
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Dennis