RSS 
So I came home today to a box on the kitchen table. UPS had been by while I was out and dropped off my new phone, a Sony Ericsson K510a. I picked it for a couple of reasons: it was a picture phone, it had bluetooth so I was pretty sure I'd be able to get said pictures to my laptop in a pinch, and surprisingly enough, it comes with a USB cable, which isn't the norm these days (usually they charge you $40 extra for one as a gigantic cash grab). Oh yeah, and it was reasonably cheap with my discounts factored in, just under $100. So I turn it on (after charging it up) and snap a shot or two. Then just to see, I plug it in via USB cable to my desktop and tell it to share files, and voila, a few seconds later it shows up in my devices tray and nautilus pops open a window of my cell phone's harddrive! I can grab pictures and put on ring tones easy as that. So I'm pretty impressed and pleased. USB mass storage is about the best thing ever and supporting it seems trivial enough and allows everything that does to "support Linux". Its plenty enough for me and always makes me happy. So I now have myself a cheapo 1.3 MP camera. I'm excited.
Note: I prefer USB mass storage in Linux now with HAL and dbus because I can unmount things easier. In windows absolutely everything touching the device has to be closed including explorer, but in Linux, unmounting now gracefully closes things like at least nautilus. My Linux desktop these days interoperates really quite nicely with all my toys and better even than windows, and without and proprietary programs. Just a little care with purchasing ;)
