Working with Other Digital Media Players and Cell Phones
Although the iPod may be the most popular digital media player out there and the iPhone holds the crown in the smartphone market, they are by no means the only games in town. As I have already shown, Android-based phones are also quite popular, and there are still other devices, ranging from simple $15 USB MP3 players to the Linux-based Palm Pre cellular phone.
How to work with these devices in Ubuntu can vary by device, but for the most part, they should work either in the same manner as an iPod or Android device or in the same manner as a USB data device. The Palm Pre, which uses a Linux-based operating system, works in Ubuntu in the same way as the iPhone, while the $19 generic MP3 player ...
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