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Chapter 4 WI-FI AND NFC

How many times have you been on vacation, and were frustrated that you
couldn’t share the photos you took with your “good camera” on Facebook
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when you took them? (Now raise your hand if you ever took a 2 picture
with your phone just so you could post it!) The Wi-Fi and Near Field
Communications (NFC) feature of this camera are designed to work with
your smartphone to address this very scenario.
Here’s what this chapter will talk about:

 How to initially configure your camera
 Cool things you can do and how to do them:
o Uploading a picture to Facebook via your smartphone
o Using your smartphone as a remote control and remote viewfinder
for your camera
o Uploading images to your home computer wirelessly

All of the smartphone examples I show in this chapter are done with my
Android phone (a Samsung Galaxy S3 (yeah I’m a luddite)). An iPhone
experience should be very similar except the NFC option will not be
available (although the iPhone 6 and 6+ have NFC, it can only be used for
Apple Pay as of this writing). And a Microsoft Windows phone experience
will be VERY different since Sony hasn’t yet released a PlayMemories
Mobile app for that platform (which is necessary for your smartphone to
interact with the camera.) (This puts you spiritually closer to us old Minolta
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owners, who got used to the fact that the 3 party world would never
accommodate them when new accessories were announced.)

4.1 WHAT IS NFC?
You’re probably already familiar with Wi-Fi, but what’s NFC and why
should you bother with it?
The short answer is “NFC is the TLA (Three-Letter Acronym) for ‘bump’”,
and “Once it’s configured, it can shorten the time to initiate something with
the smartphone”. For example, in order to send a picture I’m looking at to