Customer Rating: 
Summary: Wireless downloads - Hotspots - All from your digicam!!
Comment: I love it....that's as simple as it gets.
This has to be one of the best devices out in the market today to simplify image transfers from the camera to the PC. A brief synopsis of how it works:
The card arrives with a memory card reader, usb based of course. It is both mac and pc compatible. Simply insert the card and reader into your computer and install the EYE-FI Manager software. Setup an account on their service, set up your wireless network, and setup uploads to a web based photo sharing site. Thats it, you are done and from now on when your computer is on it will receive all images from your camera that are saved on this card....did I mention it will also upload them to your favorite photo sharing site (flickr, smugmug, mobile me, etc.).
This particular model includes wireless hotspot access from various airports, McDonalds, etc...details are on their site. This simply means that if you are on the road...take pictures...walk into a hotspot area and your pictures will be uploaded to your computer at home. (computer must be on)...they will also be sent to the photo sharing site of your choice.
I have heard complaints of your battery in the camera being drained by this function..and quite honestly I have not noticed it. I use this in multiple Canon point and shoots (sd1100is and a sd990is). All said, you probably lose a little battery capacity when your pictures are transferring..but hardly is it noticeable.
My favorite part is when pictures are downloaded to the computer, they are saved in folders by DATE. Some may not care...but for me its important to have my pictures date sorted.
The card also supports geotagging so that popular software will know where the picture was shot, etc....not an important feature for me as I usually know where I am taking my pictures to begin with. :-)
This is an excellent product and therefore I give it a 5/5. I bought it via amazon from beachcamera for $99 which is a great price.
One thing to note is that Eye-Fi has announced some 4gb models coming out soon...so if you need more wait....if not then 2gb is plenty and priced right for the functionality it provides.
Enjoy shooting!
Customer Rating: 
Summary: BUYER BEWARE. YOU WILL LOSE ALL YOUR PICTURES.
Comment: THIS IS THE LETTER I WROTE TO EYEFI THIS MORNING:
Hello,
I am writing to let you know that I am returning your most expensive version of the EyeFi card with geotagging ($130+ USD). To describe my experience with your card as disappointing would be a vast understatement. I don't care if you can fix the problem with all of your cards, because the pictures that were taken with this memory stick were irreplaceable. I took approximately 50 pictures at my father's 60th and my only nephew's first birthday party of family and friends, many that I will never see again. I trusted your card to work perfectly. The first 12 or so pictures were uploaded safely, but all the rest were never uploaded and now the card can not be read in any device. I have tried software to recover the data, but the memory stick is simply not recognized in any device. My wife was crushed when she found out that the I can't access the card (I build computers and have never run into this problem with ANY memory card, EVER). I want EyeFi to recover my images and give me a full refund. Please do not send the card back to me as I have lost trust in your company and have no faith in your products.
I wanted to put this message up as a warning to other users considering the purchase of this device. This message will be placed on all websites that I can place a review on this product for, as apparently, I am not the only one with this problem. I have read numerous similar stories like mine in forums and on the web.
Thank you, EyeFi, for the worst Holiday experience.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Stopped working after a few days.
Comment: I was able to set it up to use my home network easily enough and it transferred the files just about as quickly as we could take them. A few days later I was taking Christmas photos and it simply stopped working, even as a simple SD card, in the middle of everything. I've tried every camera and PC SD/SDHC card reader I can get my hands on but none of them are able to access the card anymore. I was told there would be no way to recover any of the photos. I've never had any problem with any of the dozen other SD/SDHC cards I've used ranging from 256MB to 16GB.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Worked for 2 days
Comment: This would be a great device if it worked. The card was fully functional for 2 days, then abruptly stopped being recognized by either the camera or the computer I used to set it up. Great disappointment. I have contacted Eye-Fi customer service and will update this post based on their response.
Customer Rating:
Summary: First it stumbled, then it died...
Comment: The speed with which the card arrived gave a new meaning to two-day shipping. It was ordered on 12/1, and showed up on 12/2. Kudos to Amazon and UPS.
I shot a few photos right away and was able to get them downloaded and geotagged without any trouble. This is my second Eye-fi card (yes, they can be broken), and once you accept the quirkiness of how they move photos around, it does make some sense. Also, being able to get a text message on my cell to tell me the card is finished offloading the newest images is a useful feature, I liked that.
Over the next few days I shot some more pictures, and the geotagging never worked well:
1) One set of photos on 12/4 was tagged with a location 40 miles away.
2) Another set on 12/5 was not tagged at all, even though I was well inside Skyhook's WPS coverage area (according to Skyhook's website).
3) A third set of photos on 12/6 was (oddly) partly geotagged and partly not geotagged. The tagging was accurate, but the images were all shot over ten minutes in and around a neighbor's house, and should all have gotten the same location.
4) I would tell you how the fourth set of photos was geotagged (walking around UNC's campus on 12/7), but after taking a half a dozen shots, the card just plain died. My Canon said it was unusable and locked. My Nikon said it was corrupt, but formatable. My PC could not see it at all. After formatting in the Nikon, it would immediately read as corrupted if I tried to use it in either camera.
So, my experience is that the Eye-fi Explore works just fine as an Eye-fi card, but that the geotagging is a bust: sometimes it does not work at all, sometimes it works wrong. As a bonus, the card died in just five days. I mailed everything back to Amazon yesterday.
The card was a gift. I hate having to return gifts, it's awkward.
Aside from the bad geotagging and the rapid failure, I would have given this card four stars. It still gets two, since it did function just fine as a vanilla Eye-fi card for a few days.
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