The WB150F has about as many wireless-sharing features as I've seen in a stand-alone camera. In addition to its in-camera e-mailing and uploading capabilities via Wi-Fi, the Samsung WB150F works with two free mobile apps for iOS and Android: Samsung's MobileLink app, which lets you share content from the camera to the phone; and Samsung RemoteViewfinder, which lets you use a mobile phone as a remote control.

Unfortunately, though iOS versions of both those apps exist, I couldn't get them to work correctly on an iPhone 4S. I had much better luck using both apps with Android 4.0 (Samsung says that both apps work correctly on Android versions 2.2 and higher).

The MobileLink app is a fairly basic peer-to-peer interface for connecting the camera to a phone via an ad hoc Wi-Fi connection. You don't need to be within range of a Wi-Fi hotspot to make it work, and establishing a connection between the camera and the phone took roughly 5 seconds. After you select 'Wi-Fi' from the WB150F's mode dial and choose 'MobileLink' from the menu, you select the camera as an access point from within your phone's MobileLink app, and it pairs the devices. From there, you can send photos from your camera to your phone (but not vice versa); in my tests, wireless transfers took about 3 seconds per photo.

RemoteViewfinder is a completely separate app, which is a shame; it would have been more efficient to offer the image-transfer features within the same app. Once you pair the phone and the camera via a direct Wi-Fi connection, you can use a basic interface on the phone to snap photos, turn the WB150F's flash on and off, and operate its optical-zoom lens. It worked without a hitch in my tests, though I noticed about a second of delay between what the camera was capturing and what appeared on the phone screen. Within the app, you can view previews of every shot that the camera takes, but images aren't saved to the phone directly. Instead, they reside on the camera's SD/SDHC/SDXC card, so you have to leave the RemoteViewfinder app and fire up the MobileLink app to transfer copies to your phone.

The WB150F also has quite a few Wi-Fi sharing features that don't need any help from an app. You can e-mail images from the camera if you have a Wi-Fi access point and a bit of patience--depending on the length of your e-mail address and/or password, since entering either of those items involves selecting each letter via the camera's directional pad, which can take a while. The process works as advertised, however: Photos that I emailed from the camera showed up in my inbox after about a minute.