On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 07:41:15PM +0100, samwise wrote:
Does anyone hare have an Android based phone and use it with Linux on their desktop?
Chris,
Depends on what you mean by use it with Linux. I got the second-ish Android phone that came out from HTC - the Magic. It's running Android 1.6 and I've been using it for 18 months+. It syncs directly to Google for mail/calendar/contacts. I've installed apps, media and other stuff directly on to the card using a suitable card reader on my laptop and desktop linux PCs.
Other than that, I haven't had much need to connect the phone directly to the PC. What use cases are you interested in?
Well we'd *really* like to synchronize a phone with the desktop but, as that seems to be totally impossible with *any* phone nowadays, maybe simply being able to copy contacts and calendar from phone to desktop would be useful.
It's all very well being able to synchronise via the cloud but it does need an internet connection to be useful and that isn't always sensibly possible for us while on the move. Synchronising direct from phone to laptop would be *much* more useful.