Wifi SD card for holidays?

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When out and about on a holiday like my last weekend trip to Brighton. My wife had asked for something that should be possible:
1. Take photos using camera (x100 in my case, RAW + JPG)
2. Use smart phone/tablet to browse photos stored in wifi SD card
3. Only download 1 or 2 interested JPG
4. ???
5. Share

I own eye-fi pro x2 the original 8GB. I know this isn't possible using eye-fi because eye-fi is designed to transfer all photos from camera to computer. Even with direct mode and use protect to select photos, the iOS app is shockingly bad, I can't even save the photo to camera roll.

Currently there's quite a few choices on the market compared to early eye-fi days:
- Toshiba Flash Air
- Transcend Wi-Fi SDHC
- exShare Wifi Sd

Which one best supports above use case?

Is there anyway to turn on/off wi-fi in the camera?

I know FlashAir supports using web browser to browse. Does the other 2 also support this? This is a slower method to browse, but it is independent of terrible apps and is guaranteed to work.

What about write speeds? The x100 is slloooooow, there is a noticeable responsiveness difference between eye-fi class 6 and sandisk extreme pro I usually use. Which of the wifi card is fastest to write?

Finally, which of the card supports same function as eye-fi? As in streaming images off the card onto desktop computer using wifi from router.
 
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The Toshiba one allows you to view all and download only what you want.

I use it with my xf1 and nexus 7 and it works well with the flashair android app. It also work with the iOS app but not used it much.

You also have the option to uploaded to web or share but I have not used this option.

It took about 5 secs for the JPEG to show up after being taken on the xf1, Raw is not supported on the app.
 
Sorry regarding your last point don't think the flashair can transfer to PC via the router or not that I have found how to do it.
 
sep9001 said:
You also have the option to uploaded to web or share but I have not used this option.
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Is that on the app or somehow configured in the SD card?

All I want is to be able to save the photo into iOS's camera roll, and quickly browse through a lot of photos (read: snappy app).



I've added another question to OP: any way to control wifi in-camera to save battery life? IIRC there's a file on Transcend card you can delete to toggle wifi?
 
How is the wifi reliability? I watched a youtube video on FlashAir and x100s, it noted connection need to be retried a few times to successfully connect.

Anyone has experience with the Transcend or ezshare?
 
Not had any issues with wifi, it has work correctly when I have used it.

One issue I had was in a mates garden was that when I was at one end it would not connected to the tab.
 
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