[plug] mounting mobile phone filesystem - update

[Gavin Chester]

On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 19:01 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:

-snippie snip-

Getting slightly OT here, but still linux-relevant :-)

> > BTW: I just discovered of this new phone that it automatically charges
> > off the usb port. geeee, ahhh :-) Maybe old hat for you people but this
> > is first new phone I've bought in _8_ years. LOL. I gave up on the
> > expense of getting a Treo or similar smartphone (see previous
> > postings). 
> 
> If that phone's a ZTE 850, and you get it working, please let me know
> how. I was totally unable to. My desktop is set up to automatically
> mount anything plugged in and give me an icon on the desktop. It doesn't
> give me anything.
> 
> It also charges from the USB hub.

No, mine is a ZTE F272 - the standard, basement model available 'free'
with a $20/mth telstra plan. I am about to take delivery of a 1GB
micro-SD card to suit and use its mp3 player capability :-) For that
card I also have a usb adapter/thumdrive so that part of getting files
_into_ the phone will be easy. What I was hoping to do was access the
internal memory to backup/update the contacts, etc. There is s/ware that
came with it for windoze that I haven't tried under wine since I'm no
wine expert. But that s/ware does promise a lot of PC<->phone syncing
options - if only it was possible in linux :-(

Gavin.