Eye-Fi, maker of camera accessories announces a key partnership and a new Smart Boost update. What's this Smart Boost update is? Well, it will let the Eye-Fi card intelligently determine the most efficient way to upload your photos to one of 20 supported photo sharing sites. This Smart Boost will enable Eye-Fi to determine if your computer is on, and if so, it will upload photos via Wi-Fi to your PC and let the Eye-Fi Manager software on your PC do the rest of work.
Unlike with no Smart Boost, the Eye-Fi transfers your images over your Wi-Fi network to the Web-based Eye-Fi service, which then forwards the images to your photo sharing service.
The main benefit is to have a faster photo transfers off the card (not the ultimate arrival at your photo sharing site) reducing card activity and save battery life, which is no small benefit in and of itself.
Uhmm, well, what if my network and net connections are slow?
