Button, button, who's got the button?

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I love Android, I really do. I’m chuffed to bits with the Galaxy Nexus I won recently. I’ve had a dozen Android phones before that – stretching all the way back to the HTC Magic. But it’s getting obvious that Android has a serious design problem – even with the gorgeous new “Holo” theme for…

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Connecting Samsung ICS to Ubuntu using MTP

by @edent | # # # # # # | 15 comments | Read ~35,746 times.

(These notes are mostly for my own benefit). Android is moving away from USB Mass Storage. You will no longer be able to plug in a USB cable and have your Android show up as a USB disk. There are some good technical reasons for this, but it is a pain if you want to…

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