*sigh* I guess I'm going mobile

[Mark Komarinski]

On 6/14/2013 6:32 AM, David Rysdam wrote:
> Twice in the last week we've had incidents where I needed to contact my
> wife and couldn't. We have cheap crappy cellphones but they are so old
> that they don't work well (e.g. won't hold a charge, terrible coverage,
> etc) so we don't ever take them with us.
>
> I'm afraid I'm going to have to get something modern. It's possible
> we'll still get dumbphones, but I'm looking at the smartphone options as
> well, thus the *sigh*.
>
> Here's my Linux-related question: What smartphones will I have the least
> amount of trouble with if I need/want to connect them with my Linux
> computer? Presumably Android, but maybe not. Or possibly certain
> versions are better or worse than others.
>

I almost never have to sync any of my android devices to my system, it 
all just goes into the cloud *waves hands*.  When I do, though, there's 
a few different ways to get to the storage.  Changing the USB access 
type as Curt mentioned works, and I think you can also use the Android 
SDK to directly access files over USB.

While you're looking at phones, the Galaxy S3 is pretty sweet, and 
inexpensive to boot now that the GS4 is out.

-Mark