SD card reader for iPhone Coming Soon
DP Review brings news that a SD card reader for the iPhone is coming soon from ZoomMedia. The ZoomIt will allow you to copy photos from your digital Camera’s SD card to your iPhone. From there you can email the photos, or upload them to a service like Facebook, Flickr or your WordPress blog. They also claim to support other file types, like audio, video and documents. In the future their app will support various DRM restricted file types.
All I can say is: It is about time! The iPhone camera is handy, but its doesn’t even come close to the quality and capability of a compact point and shoot camera. I’d hoped that EyeFi’s WiFi-enhanced SD cards would provide the ability to transfer photos directly to your iPhone over WiFi, but their iPhone app only goes so far as to let you upload photos you take with the iPhone’s built in camera to your computer via your service. Also, only the high end version of their card would be able to communicate directly with your iPhone over an “Ad Hoc” WiFi network when there is no access point involved.
This is the first product I’m aware of that uses the iPhone Device SDK that Apple announced a year ago when they previewed iPhone OS 3.0. I hope we’ll see more soon. The ZoomIt is supposed to ship in April with a list price of $59. They are offering a $10 discount for pre-orders, but it seems their online store is down for the time being.
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