[lug] cell phones with linux

[Chris McDermott]

I used my iPhone with Linux for a while - Ubuntu to be specific.  Syncing
music was pretty easy, I used fuse and sshfs to mount it and then amarok to
push music up onto it.  Photos I believe just work, when you plug it in the
little "import digital photos" wizard pops up.  I was never able to get my
contacts to sync though.  Last time I looked (10+ months ago) there was some
work on a project to make that work, but I never followed up.  I believe the
contacts are stored in a sqlite database or something along those lines.

I was upset because I had vmware running a virtual xp guest, but vmware does
not support iPhones over usb.  Bleh.  But maybe things have changed.

Chris

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Matthew Beldyk <matt at beldyk.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My current phone is slowly dieing.  I was wondering if anyone had any
> experience with syncing cellphones under linux.  I'm likely going to
> purchase a phone at the ATT store (GSM) and renew my contract.  Does
> anyone know of any new phones that work under linux (I want to be able
> to copy photos, themes, ringtones, and contacts between the phone and
> my computer).  I'm somewhat eyeing the iphone because the magic blue
> smoke came out of my ipod a couple months ago, but I don't know if it
> will talk to linux (ie. I can mount it with htfs and make amarok talk
> to it).
>
> Anyhow, if anyone has any wisdom they'd like to share with me about
> this, I would be grateful.
>
> -Matt
>
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