*sigh* I guess I'm going mobile (Linux-compatible smartphones?)
David Rysdam
david at rysdam.org
Fri Jun 14 11:15:37 EDT 2013
Michael ODonnell <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> writes:
>> What smartphones will I have the least amount of trouble
>> with if I need/want to connect them with my Linux computer?
>
> If by "connect" you mean "move photo/movie/sound/ringtone/etc
> files between host and phone" then I'll echo Curt's response.
> My by-now-ancient DroidX2 behaves perfectly with USB (and
> Bluetooth, I assume, though I've never tried it) for approved
> activities like that, presenting two block devices - one for the
> permanent internal storage and one for the removable storage -
> that I can mount and access trivially.
I was imagining having to get photos off, copy MP3s on, etc. I hadn't
considered WiFi.
In any case, now that I've looked at it a bit, I doubt I'm going
smartphone. The pricing is just too enragingly entitled.
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