Toshiba, the world’s leading technology company has recently announced that it will foray into the SD card business. These SD cards are Wi-Fi enabled and it is an integration of wireless communication and data storage capabilities. Toshiba has joined hands with a Singapore based company called Trek 2000 to develop these sophisticated wireless cards. By entering into this market, Toshiba has presented a clear threat to the current market leader Eye-Fi.

In this digital age everyone wants to share pictures in a quick and hassle free way. This new card will offer users such enhanced abilities to share photographs. This card has been specially designed to integrate Wi-Fi with digital cameras that come with an SDHC slot. The moment you put the card into the camera it recognizes other cameras that too supports the similar cards and thus, sharing pictures becomes much easier and faster. You can also upload or download photographs from the server wirelessly.

This card is in compliance with the standard of SD memory cards and is compatible with IEEE 802.11b/g. It also features an 8-GB capacity and can transfer both JPEG as well as RAW images. Toshiba and Trek have requested all the major digital camera manufacturers and other stakeholders to participate in the promotion of this new card and also help in determining standard specifications in this space.

It definitely looks like a very good addition to the existing technology and we hope that with the introduction of this card, sharing of photographs becomes even easier. Toshiba hasn’t yet indicated any price line for this card.