Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business

Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by Nullabillity on Thursday July 28, 2016 @10:19PM (#12184674)

Bluetooth contact import worked fine, and Skype synced fine as well, which was what mattered for me at least.

On the other hand, having an ACTUAL Linux command line with ACTUAL root and an ACTUAL keyboard was worth gold, and still sorely missed today.

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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by skykooler on Friday July 29, 2016 @12:07AM (#12184964)

Currently the best evolution of this is probably Sailfish OS, on a Jolla with a hardware keyboard Other Half.

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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by ommunist on Thursday July 28, 2016 @10:45PM (#12184758)

It is not missed if you consider your device a terminal to your real Linux server and use Prompt on iOS as an example.

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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by adrianratnapala on Friday July 29, 2016 @02:47AM (#12185346)

The chief feature I miss on Android is the ability to user rsync to syncrhonise its content with my PC in a reasonable way. I can rsync to the phone -- but none of the apps are allowed to read the directory thus synced.

Maybe IOs is more forgiving. But how would a terminal emulator help?

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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by Nullabillity on Thursday July 28, 2016 @10:55PM (#12184786)

Sounds wonderful reat if you enjoy GPRS latency and typing code with soft keyboards. I'd also assume that working with local peripherals work great with that setup?

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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by ommunist on Friday July 29, 2016 @02:01PM (#12188618)

Saved my bacon couple of times. Definitely not for regular job, but a very good thing to have for just in case situations.

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