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On Saturday 20 December 2014 13:30:47 John Andersen wrote:
On 12/20/2014 06:09 AM, Hans Witvliet wrote:
Any good suggestions when looking for a smartphone?
My daughter use to have a Sony Experia, and communicating to her laptop only works with some awkward Windows-tool.
And I heard that Samsungs are not Linux-friendly either.
Most important features is being able to the a phone as a storage device, for music, photo's and so on.
All other features can be found in zillions test sites, but none can tell me how 'linux-compatible' a phone is.
Hans.
If you plan on cabling the phone to the computer you are doing it wrong. That is not necessary, and simply ads complexity that is not needed. (Cabling is an old iPhone habit that needs to be broken asap).
Get any android you want , then go get ES File Explorer. (Free from the Google market). Fiddle with that for a while and you will find it very capable.
It will talk to samba, ftp, sftp, ftps, webdav cloud-services, etc.
You can move files back and forth, easily on your own wifi network or across the internet, or bluetooth. Its an amazing tool.
The only reason you get the impression that Samsung is not friendly is because you approach the whole project with a usb cable in your hand. Forget that.
Not any android then. I can do exactly as you said with Nexus 7, but my MTK device supports only b/g wifi, and for some reason not able to copy large amounts of data over wifi (looks like connection breaks as soon as lock is activated). So instead of fighting with it for half an hour, I can attach a cable and copy all I need in matter of seconds. On the other hand, with Nexus 7 it is much simpler to copy over ssh than to dig why MTP does not work, it is both fast and reliable. I'm using the same FX File Explorer on both devices. -- Regards, Stas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org