I have an android tablet. I've never used the USB for anything other than charging. I do everything over WiFi
My videos are on a DLNA/UPnP server on my fileserver. Music I have a DAAP server. Books I have on Calibre with the web server. I have samba/nfs/sftp/http servers to access files on it too. And I run Dropbox on the fileserver. On the android, I have web and file browsers that can copy stuff to the SD card when I'm not within WiFi reach of the fileserver. There's also Dropbox. If you use google for email, calendar, etc it just works. Feedly is a bit slow on android for RSS but it lets you use one reader everywhere. The main thing I need to copy files locally for is uploading photos from the android and downloading to kindle/fbreader/nook/other ereader onto the android. You can use Dropbox to do all this automatically. There are also apps to auto upload photos too. If I had a phone w/ more data plan then I'd use, I'd figure a way to ssh tunnel to my server so it'd always be available. I'd also figure out how to tether for my laptop. I imagine there are similar things for iPhone but some things will never happen (emulators if you're into that for example) On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Šarūnas <saru...@mail.saabnet.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/14/2013 06:32 AM, David Rysdam wrote: > > ... > > > > Here's my Linux-related question: What smartphones will I have the least > > amount of trouble with if I need/want to connect them with my Linux > > computer? Presumably Android, but maybe not. Or possibly certain > > versions are better or worse than others. > > I'm happy with Nokia N9 / MeeGo, quadband GSM, pentaband "3G", > works/roams in Europe/Mexico/Canada, free offline maps and navigation. > Connection to Linux via USB (mass storage) and Bluetooth. Now new apps > in Store anymore though. > > - -- > Šarūnas Burdulis > http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlG7D9gACgkQVVkpJ1MUn+bU8QCfePdTQiHQsCXBm7N+TCk6qn3q > J/0AnjVuZlEEWvy+CeK7vrmDO01Z5DnH > =vaqo > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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