I know that Eyefi cards can use Wi-Fi networks to transfers photos. I also know that there's some sort of smartphone/tablet app that you can download to do various things with your Eyefi card and photos, but in the case that a Wi-Fi connection is not available, can the Eyefi card somehow link to a smartphone/tablet and use that smartphone/tablet's 3G/4G network to transfer the photos to a predesignated computer? Thank you.
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You could turn your device into a Wifi hotspot and then EyeFi can connect to the internet via your phone (or tablet).
I don't have any experience with Eye Fi specifically, but presumably its programmed to scan for a list of known wifi hotspots. I would imagine you could program it to find your phone consistently and then once your device is enabled as a hotspot and as long as your phone has internet access to the target machine (ie. that target machine needs to be exposed to the www as a server of some sort) you'd be off to the races.
Of course enabling your device as a wifi hotspot will eat up data usage from your cell plan, so make sure you've covered that angle. If your plan doesn't already include data it can be a pretty sizable hit to the wallet.
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