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choose Select on This Device and then This Image. The camera then sets
up its own Wi-Fi hot spot and it should then appear on your PlayMemories
Mobile Screen. (Mine shows up as “Direct-JwA0:ILCA-77M2”.) Select
the camera it found by tapping it with your finger. The phone should then
show “Connecting…” and then the image will transfer over, ending with a
confirmation screen like that shown in Figure 4-6. Hit “OK” on the phone
to finish.
Congratulations! You just experienced some instant gratification.

TIP 1: You can transfer still images (.jpgs only) or .mp4 movies (not AVCHD) to
your smartphone this way. If you’re shooting in RAW, the camera converts the
RAW file to a .jpg first before transferring it over.
TIP 2: If you’re connected to your camera via PlayMemories Mobile on an
Android phone, and you put the program in the background (to take a call, for
example), the Wi-Fi connection to your camera will terminate. Oh, well.

4.3.3 CONFIGURING NFC ON YOUR SMARTPHONE

The above process of transferring a file to your smartphone gets much
easier if your phone has NFC built-in. To enable NFC on your smartphone,
on Android 4.1, just go to SETTINGS
 MORE SETTINGS  NFC 
ON. (This will only appear if your
device has an NFC transmitter built-in,
of course.)
Now let’s try the very same image
transfer from the previous section. This
will now only take two steps:
1. Turn the camera on and play back
any still image.
2. Turn on your smartphone and bump
the two together (making sure the
NFC sensors are properly lined up.) Figure 4-6: What you see after a
successful image transfer.
That’s it! Once connected your

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