Toshiba e le SDHC wireless - [NEWS]

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Nell'intento di definire uno standard, Toshiba ha annunciato lo sviluppo della propria linea di memorie SDHC WiFi in collaborazione con Trek 2000, azienda con base a Singapore. Tra le caratteristiche tecniche principali del nuovo prodotto, oltre alla capacità di 8GByte, il supporto allo standard wireless IEEE 802.11b/g e la possibilità di trasferire file RAW. In concomitanza con l'annuncio del prodotto, Toshiba ha inoltre sottolineato forse l'aspetto più importante di questa iniziativa e cioè l'invito ai maggiori player del settore fotografico ad aderire ad un Forum per l'affinamento ed il supporto alla nuova tecnologia.

Press release in lingua originale

Toshiba and Trek Establish Forum to Promote
SD Cards Embedding Wireless Communication Functions

22 Jun, 2010 Tokyo—Toshiba Corporation today announced the launch of an industry forum to promote a new SD card that integrates Wi-Fi wireless communication with data storage capabilities. The forum, the "Standard Promotion Forum for Memory Cards Embedding Wireless LAN"* has been founded by Toshiba and Singapore-based Trek 2000 International Ltd.

In recent years, as digital cameras have achieved huge rates of market penetration, the need for quick and easy way to share photographs has grown. The new card offers an innovative solution that brings new capabilities to the already very popular SDHC format.

The card is designed to bring Wi-Fi functionality to digital still cameras that have an SDHC slot. Once in a camera, a card can recognize and communicate with the same type of card in another camera (on a one-to-one basis), and users can exchange photographs quickly and easily. It also allows users to upload and download photographs to and from a server without any need for a cable connection or transfers of the memory card.

The new card is compliant with the SD memory card standard, supports IEEE 802.11b/g and has an 8-gigabyte capacity. It can transfer both JPEG and RAW images, the two most widely used digital formats.

Toshiba and Trek will invite the participation of digital camera manufacturers and other interested parties in promoting the card, and in exchanges of technical information toward establishing standard specifications and expanding the use of the card.

Toshiba is a market leader in the development and manufacture of NAND flash memory, which is indispensable for today's personal digital devices. The company seeks to enhance and expand its memory business by proposing new applications for NAND flash memories.

Features of SD card embedding wireless communication functions

• The ability to send and receive image data among digital still cameras equipped with an SDHC slot and the card.
• Upload and downloads of digital photographs between a digital still camera equipped with an SDHC slot and the card, and in a Wi-Fi environment, and a server.
• User management of image transmission and reception minimizes power consumption compared with current solution.

* Standard Promotion Forum for Memory Cards Embedding Wireless LAN is a provisional name and may be subject to change.

[giostark]

Molto interessante , all'epoca avevo trovato queste :
Eye-Fi memory cards: wireless photo and video uploads straight from your camera to your computer & the web.
Che purtroppo non avevano prestazioni brillanti. Queste nuove dovrebbero garantire maggiori performance. Ovviamente il costo non le rende alla portata di tutti (senza considerare la compatibilita' con i corpi macchina) diverso sarebbe il discorso per chi deve spedire foto quasi in tempo reale (magari a redazioni ecc ecc) .
Aver la comodita' di non sfilare nulla e di non usare cavetti ,credo che non sia per nulla male