We send engineers into the field to investigate damaged buildings. They take hundreds of digital photos each day. We recently had an SD card fail after the photos were taken, thus we are searching for a portable device to allow them to copy the photos to it at the job site thus giving us two copies of the photos, of which at least one should always make it back to the office for uploading to our databases.
We've found products from Wolverine and Hyperdrive, however they aren't quite right. Also thought of a portable music play like the Zune, however Zune claims we can not connect the digital camera and the Zune directly to copy photos.
Is anybody aware of a small device which would allow us to :
1: copy photos to it directly from a digital camera
2: Allow review of the pics on the backup device
3: preferably be solid state: no hard drive
4: can operate using a car's lighter for power
5: Be small/light
Thanks for any and all suggestions.
Paul
I've done more digging and have found the perfect device to do what we need: a Cell Phone/PDA like the Cingular 8125 I use. It has a mini USB connection, has a small version of Windows on it, can read the 2 gig data card I put in to store files... I'm going by Fry's tomorrow to see if they have a mini USB to mini USB cable and will experiment from there.
While larger than the cell phones most users have it would solve all aspects of our data loss potential. Might anyone here have done this already? Any idea of the wiring of sync cables? I'd prefer not to burn anything out just yet. <g>