One of the great failings of mobile devices is how difficult it can be to transfer data from your device to your computer. Mobile devices have a long history of this. Early mobiles, like Pilot and Handspring PDA devices, required special synchronization software (which you had to do religiously for fear of your device running out of batteries and losing all of your data forever). Old iPods required a platform-specific interface. Modern mobile devices default to sending your data to an online account so you can download it again on your computer.
Good news—if you’re running Linux, you can probably interface with your mobile device using the gphoto2 command. Originally developed as a way to communicate with digital cameras back when a digital camera was just a camera, gphoto2 can talk to many different kinds of mobile devices now. Don’t let the name fool you, either. It can handle all types of files, not just photos. Better yet, it’s scriptable, flexible, and a lot more powerful than most GUI interfaces.
If you’ve ever struggled with finding a comfortable way to sync your data between your computer and mobile, take a look at gphoto2.
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One of the great failings of mobile devices is how difficult it can be to transfer data from your device to your computer. Mobile devices have a long history of this. Early mobiles, like Pilot and Handspring PDA devices, required special synchronization software (which you had to do religiously for fear of your device running out of batteries and losing all of your data forever). Old iPods required a platform-specific interface. Modern mobile devices default to sending your data to an online account so you can download it again on your computer.