Originally posted by Kobie All you need is a phone that has wifi to transfer images/control the camera and have a live view screen. The phone doesn't need to be "activated" on a wireless carrier. For bluetooth, it's the same thing. All you need is the phone, nothing else.
Excellent, thank you
I'll check out the local "for sale" groups and see what I can find cheap
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Originally posted by gatorguy Absolutely. My son did that for several months this past year, using it for calls and texts and browsing whenever on a wifi network, no SIM whatsoever in the phone.
Thanks for the confirmation … I'll just have to make sure the app will run on any old phone I find and I can take it from there
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Originally posted by clackers That's actually the best setup.
A lot of phones will try to break the wifi setting to the camera and switch to cell data to maintain an Internet connection.
Thanks … I'll be checking it out
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Originally posted by Kozlok I don't think the Image Sync app cares if you have a sim card. You could buy a quite old phone, not connect it to service, and use it freely. You'd need to download the app while on wifi at home, and then you should be able easily to use image sync from that no-service phone.
Thanks for the detail … I'll just need to make sure the o/s on the phone will run the app
I do have wi-fi at home … not that it's activated … but I'll switch it on especially for the occasion