David N
Ive owned Nikons since 1962 but this will likely be my last one. We want to do some extensive travel in 2018 and wanted a larger sensor camera with the ability to easily connect to a smartphone and tablet for sharing and backup. Nikon forces you to go through their Snapbridge app for both. Using the bluetooth side for recording pictures was incredibly tedious and required forgetting the camera multiple times in order to reconnect. Never could establish a wi-fi connection. I would be happy just to have wi-fi but all connectivity requires Snapbridge. No workaround that I have found. Camera firmware is up to date. I worked for over an hour recently when Nikon released version 2.0.3 in another effort to make things work. All I accomplished was running a fully charged battery down to nothing in that period of time because of bluetooth and wi-fi energy demands. I wish I had paid more attention to the bad reviews here and on other forums but I really believed the app couldnt be that bad. It is. I own a Panasonic Lumix travel camera and a Lumix bridge camera and I have no problem connecting them to other devices with wi-fi. At this point the new D5600 will stay on the shelf and the Panasonics will be going with us. I hope Nikon resolves its Snapbridge issues before other faithful customers start looking elsewhere.
