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110 Wi-Fi and NFC

my smartphone, all I have to do is touch the side of the camera to the back
of my smartphone. (Both have to be on, of course.) The app starts
automatically on my smartphone, and the image ends up on my phone
seconds later, ready for me to share it with the world. So it can save a little
bit of fumbling on both the camera and the smartphone.
The allowable distance between NFC sensors is intentionally small – the
official specification is no more than two inches. This was done to
minimize the very real possibility of someone standing next to you in a
crowded room and slurping up your phone’s contents without your
knowledge or consent. (I sure wish the folks who decided putting RFID
tags into U.S. Passports had taken that scenario into account before
deciding it was a good idea.) Anyway, on this camera it’s even less than an
inch. The sensor itself lies directly beneath the N logo on the camera’s side
(Figure 4-1a). And at least with my smartphone the N logo must be placed
EXACTLY where my NFC sensor is in my phone (which is completely
unmarked, so I have to slide the camera around the back of the phone a
little bit until I hear the “I found you!” sound - Figure 4-1b).

Figure 4-1: The NFC transceiver is located directly behind this fancy N logo on
the camera’s side (left). Once it’s aligned with the NFC transceiver on the back of
your smartphone (right), you can separate the two devices, and the Wi-Fi
transfer will initiate.

4.2 SETTING THINGS UP – WI-FI DOWNLOAD
Before you can upload images to your home computer, you need to log into
your local router. You only have to do this the first time you connect to a

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