On 10/06/2018 11:15, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Adrian Brentnall wrote:
I don;t use the mobile that often, but it'd be handy to be able to take
half-decent photos (the Huawei complains that it's got no room to store
them), and I'd like to be able to run some apps like VNC Terminal, to
monitor the Raspberry Pi that looks after my glass kiln.

That was the problem I had. Wanting a half decent camera - since that gets
probably more use than the phone functions. But the best cameras rather
obviously come in the most expensive phones. I bought a Galaxy 5 some
years ago for PAYG, and am still pleased with the camera for the sort of
use I give it.

So might be worth looking for a good used phone with a decent camera,
since you're not going to need all the bells and whistles of the latest
model?


Yes - that's a thought....
The camera on the Huawei seems to be 3.15Megapixels... the Archos core
50 I was looking at has two cameras - but the front one is 13mp (!)

Prompted by comments on this newsgroup, I had a bit of a furtle in the
Huawei, and found a heap of logfiles that were occupying _lots_ of space.
Sent them to the great bit-bucket in the sky, and the phone condescended
to allow me to download a VNC viewer - and, after a tweak to the VNC
server on the RPi, managed to access the RPi 'kiln temperature' screen
on the phone - which is a step forwards...

Touch-screen on the Huawei still leaves a lot to be desired - so I'll
keep looking for an upgrade. I guess 'most people' change/upgrade their
phones quite frequently, so there may be lightly-used, second-user
phones out there at reasonable prices - never really thought about it..
I suppose it's one of those things that either 'works' or 'doesn't'...
and if the seller (thinking trader rather than private individual) is
willing to offer some kind of warranty, then how bad could it be?

Thanks
Adrian