[olug] smart phones recs / Linux integration

[Eric P]

I've been playing around w/some of the latest gen Android devices and am leaning towards the HTC Thunderbolt.

Most of the reviews are pretty solid for this device.  I'd still be curious to here anyone else's opinions on the subject.

Thanks,
Eric

(2011年05月27日 23:19), Dan Anderson wrote:
> I love my Samsung Galaxy S (Epic 4G).
>
> It's a decent phone out of the box, but when you pair it with a nice big
> Seidio battery - it becomes an awesome phone.
>
> Smart phones with big fancy bright screens and multiple network options are
> great - but their battery life is too short.
>
> You don't normally really sync Android phones with a PC.  (I guess you could
> - there is sometimes software from some of the phone manufacturers, I've
> never used it.)
>
> I sync everything that I sync via google, over the network or I just mount
> it (very rarely) like a USB drive and copy stuff to/from it.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Eric P<eric.maillist at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> I'm finally getting around to really wanting a smart phone.
>>
>> I stopped by Verizon today and saw a ton of Android models I've never heard
>> of.  I'm also open to an iPhone, but I know
>> there's no official software support for Linux and I get the feeling that
>> Linux iPhone support (from the open source
>> community) is maybe not all there.  I could be wrong.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me their experience using an iPhone 4 on Linux?  What can I
>> expect to work and what doesn't work?
>>
>> And for Android devices is there anything I can't do under Linux that the
>> "lesser" OSes can do?  Anyone have an Android
>> device that they believe is hands down awesome?
>>
>> Thanks for any input...
>> Eric
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