[olug] smart phones recs / Linux integration

[Benjamin Watson]

I'm still clinging to my 1st gen Moto Droid and love the thing,
especially after rooting and installing custom ROMs to it.  I've got
custom kernels in it to support overclocking (up to 1.25GHz) for
performance and underclocking (down to 250MHz) for battery life (stock
is 550MHz I believe).

In terms of "using it with Linux", obviously the Android OS is derived
from Linux, so it works well with my other boxes in my house, not that
I actually physically connect my phone to any of my machines very
often.  Typically I'll use my phone to remote control my Myth
frontends, VNC/ssh into my Linux boxes and the like.  It is amazing
how lazy you can get with a phone like this in your pocket with
respect to remote admin.  Sometimes that keyboard way across the room
(all of 20 feet) just seems too far away when you're watching some TV.

I imagine most of the things I described can be accomplished with a
jailbroken iPhone.

Ben

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Eric P <eric.maillist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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