Nokia on its relationship with the open source community [LWN.net]

Nokia on its relationship with the open source community

Posted Mar 14, 2008 17:23 UTC (Fri) by Thue (subscriber, #14277)
Parent article: Nokia on its relationship with the open source community

My Nokia 5300 has an mini-USB port. The phone doesn't work with my Linux PC as an USB mass storage device, but when I complained to Nokia they said "we don't support Linux". My next phone won't be a Nokia.

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Nokia on its relationship with the open source community

Posted Mar 15, 2008 0:17 UTC (Sat) by jhoger (guest, #33302) [Link]

Truly. The problem is likely that their software development arm doesn't have much of anything
to do with their tech support.

But if it did (and they generally do work together in the small companies I like to work at)
anyone running Linux that calls tech support should just get a free pass to level 3 tech
support. That means you get to talk to an actual engineer.

There are relatively few Linux users, and of those, most do not call tech support. We tend to
solve problems ourselves whenever possible, so it is the best kind of tech support: we only
call with an actual problem, so we are effectively providing free-of-charge SQA service.

-- John.

Nokia on its relationship with the open source community

Posted Mar 15, 2008 8:16 UTC (Sat) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159) [Link]

The phone memory can probably be accessed via OBEX-FTP over either Bluetooth or USB, if it
makes any difference.  It might not be your first choice of industry standard protocol, but it
is documented and there is Linux software support.

To tell the truth, I doubt the manufacturers of any of the phones I can buy locally would have
answered differently.

Nokia on its relationship with the open source community

Posted Mar 15, 2008 13:16 UTC (Sat) by larryn (guest, #3457) [Link]

That's really odd. My N95 8GB plugs in openSUSE and it recognizes as mass storage device right
away...

Granted Nokia raises their voice with patent which is a big deal to a lot of fans but look at
their involvement with OSS on the Internet Tablet.

The fact that they have less restriction on what you could do with your phone, unlike the
overhpyed iP, I really appreciate that.

If I'm not mistaken, you can't not discuss iPhone SDK on its list, you can't use Opera, any
programming langugage (Pyhon, Java, Perl, Ruby) to write your app. You can't use VoIP app.
Now, I'm not a developer but all of the above you could use with any Nokia phone.

Nokia on its relationship with the open source community

Posted Mar 19, 2008 2:53 UTC (Wed) by soulhunter (guest, #51117) [Link]

Hi!

I got: Nokia 5200 and Nokia 5310 , them both work as:

+ Storage Device
+ ACM Modem
+ And, off course, via bluetooth.

No problems.  The funny part: the "memory" looks like an scsi device, no 
partition (sdb , in my case), so, mount /dev/sdb /media/usbx would do the 
trick for me.  Oh, I hasn't tried to plug my phones without the minisd 
card.

I'm using Linux kernel 2.6.24.2 , Debian Sid.

I haven't tried 5300, but 5200 and 5310 are pretty much the same, and 5300 
looks like a 5200 "with steroids".

Btw, them both have a problem with mp3 codec, so, from time to time, they 
just "reset" while playing music :( .  Fortunelly, it is uncommon (about 
once every 10 hours of music or so).

I hope this helps.