06-07-2021, 05:46 PM
(06-07-2021, 04:41 PM)ryo Wrote: To me it's the fact that it's not a smartphone that acts like a PC like it's the case with iOS and Android, but rather it's a PC that acts like a smartphone.
Even things that are supposed to be simple like sending files back and forth is way easier with a PinePhone.
On iOS and Android I need to rely on a local Nextcloud server that's not hooked up to the internet to transfer files between phones and PCs, because on Android I need to enable "file transfer" every single time, and it's still not a guarantee it'll work.
And on iOS there's literally no other way if you're both using Linux on your PC, and refuse to update iOS to the latest version (for connecting to an old Mac or Windows PC, I have both just in case).
Meanwhile on PinePhone, I simply add my PC's SSH key to my phone so I can use the "scp" command, and just press the Tab key twice to autofill the correct filename that exists on my phone.
Agreed. Being able to transfer files from the phone to PC without workarounds is great. For iPhones I used to use a Python script called "droopy" to do it before eventually writing my own. The idea was you run a bare bones server program on your Linux PC and use Safari as the client to upload/download the files. It's essentially just parsing a POST request and then sending or receiving the file data, but on principle it's a major PITA for something that should be (and now is, thanks to Linux phones) so simple.