Re: smartphone connectivity

I use an android phone that isnt a chinese knockoff (Samsung Galaxy S)
and I normally use Bluetooth to transfer photos off the phone and USB
to transfer music. I get around 300kb/s on the bluetooth and about
8MB/s on the USB. I also store most of the data on a separate MicroSD
card that I can pull out and put back in without affecting the phone.

I have a friend with an iphone and he says that the bluetooth is crap,
and I think you have to jailbreak it and install a bluetooth app in
order to get proper bluetooth.

Android also has a Samba app that effectively makes your phone look
like another windows computer on the network so you can transfer files
over WiFi, perhaps iphone has something similar?

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Chris Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> How do those of you who own them, connect them to your linux PC's?
>
> My Chinese iphone copy has usb, bluetooth, & wifi.
> I got the Bluetooth working but file transfer rate is only 8.5KBps - which
> is a tad tedious.
> Wifi can use my connection to browse the net on the phone (but why I would
> want to do that with all these proper screens in front of me is a good
> question) but the phone has no means of transferring files via wifi. (do
> other phones do this?)
> I suppose I could email the files to myself from the phone...
>
> I could use the USB cable, or pull the data-card and read that directly both
> of which effectively disable the phone while the transfer is taking place..
>
> What method do you smartphone people use to transfer files??
>
>
> cheers
> chris
>
>
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