Jerry Houston wrote:
The deal-breaker may be if I can't find a way for her to copy snapshots from her Motorola Razr V3 to her computer, though. I've followed up on what seemed to be promising leads, but I've never gotten anything to work. It's been an immensely popular phone over the years, however. I'm hoping that someone here has found the answer, and will share.
Hi Jerry, I think your being able to access a Razr depends on your carrier. I had a Razr V2 with Cingular (now AT&T) that I could never get working with Linux. I think that AT&T deliberately hobbled the phone's capabilities to act as a standard external storage device. When my AT&T contract ended I dumped them for T-Mobile. (I signed up with Pacific Bell Mobile Services, then taken over by SBC, then taken over by AT&T. AT&T is evil, I left as soon as I could.) I now have a T-Mobile Motorola Rizr and your question prompted me to try it with SuSE 11.0/KDE-3.5. I connected it via USB and Presto! it mounted right away and appeared as an external storage device. I downloaded my photos with Digikam in a pair of New York seconds. Then, I removed the USB cable and plugged in a small BlueTooth adapter that I haven't used for a year or so. Presto! I was able to access the phone via KBlutTooth. I still have the older Razr and tried it again with the USB cable and it was as dead as a doornail. So, from my limited experience, T-Mobile is the way to go. openSuSE 11.0/KDE-3.5 is fine and will work well if your phone supports it. I'm not an expert in these matters, YMMV. Regards, Lew Wolfgang BTW, I tried Verizon too, but I prefer GSM with customer-removeable SIM cards. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org