On Sat, 2014-12-20 at 13:30 -0800, 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.
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.
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Thanks for all the replies. It is a major relief to know life isn't that complicated anymore. Just made one person vary happy... as soon as she is finished playing with it, i'll try the ES-File-Explorer! Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org