ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME

An electronic apparatus comprises a first communication unit for wireless communication, a second communication unit having a slower wireless communication speed than the first communication unit, a processing unit carrying out processing based on received requests, and a control unit that controls the communication, wherein, when a prescribed request has been received from an external device via a communication connection established via the second communication unit, the control unit starts connection processing with the external device using the first communication unit, and wherein the processing unit executes processing in accordance with the request received via the second communication unit in a period up until a communication connection is established by the first communication unit, and executes processing in accordance with the request received via the first communication unit after the communication connection has been established by the first communication unit.