On 25/10/14 23:46, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Tim Watts wrote:
If you get an unbranded phone and don't think Google are Satan's love
child, you really do not need Kies at all IME.

File transfer is trivial via SFTP or USB direct.

Can you take me through getting the phone to connect via USB?


On Xubuntu 14.04 under XFCE4 I just plugged it in just now and the file
manager, thunar the filemanager offered it as a mountable mtp device.

I clicked it and am now browsing its filesystem

No special preparations -