The experience can be deeply frustrating, as the concept holds so much promise: the idea of being able to use a dedicated camera to take precisely the photo you want and then be able to share or upload it using a smartphone seems obvious. It's been nearly twenty years since Nikon introduced the first Wi-Fi enabled cameras and 16 years since the iPhone helped to ushered in the modern smartphone era, and yet we continue to hear about how unreliable and inconsistent the experience of connecting cameras can be.
Why is it so difficult to simply transfer some images to your phone? In part this is because the potentially useful image transfer apps can be awkward or unreliable to use. Your latest camera probably has Wi-Fi capabilities, yet we know a lot of people say they simply don't use that capability at all.
