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* Anton Aylward
On 12/20/2014 09:09 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.
Where was that?
I've had five Samsung phones, the original Nexus, and four of the S-series, as well as a couple of tablets. All work fine with Linux, with with a USB cable to my desktop and the Media Transfer protocol making them look like data stores, or using a Files explorer[1], recommended by IIR John Anderson. Here a few months ago. That works as FTP or via SAMBA. Thank you, John.
I've also transferred files on SD cards for the tablet and later model phones, a 32G card. For that I had to install FUSE and exFAT.
You really should have a look at kdeconnect-kde http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
Most important features is being able to the a phone as a storage device, for music, photo's and so on.
STORAGE! WTF! The phone is for active stuff not archives.
Swap-in/swap-out to a series of ... Well either SD cards or using a OTC cable to USB sticks.
My hip pouch/wallet has slots for extra cards :-)
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