Thread: Jolla Tablet
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2015-01-30 , 09:38
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
Some people might want to swap cards between devices but I feel that is pretty ancient procedure... once I stick a card in my phone or tablet is pretty much stays there.
Whereas I remove mine regularly as it's the quickest way to get music on to the card on my Mac. Remember that Macs do not support MTP. SFTP is OK too provided your phone has developer mode on and you've installed horndis on the Mac to get USB networking.

Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
A camera is a bit different animal, I have several cards of course that I rotate; when one is full and I have no chance to empty it to my laptop I'll just put it in my pocket and stick in another.
On the evening I will then transfer the goodies to my computer via USB cable, not by putting the card into the computer which has no slot for it anyway

So, what I'd like to see is ability for the tablet to replace my laptop in this scenario; to act as USB master host so I can connect my camera to it, I have no need to swap cards between the devices.
That is fine provided your camera still has battery life and it's how I usually work also with laptops. For a tablet it'd need to support the camera's mtp/ptp mode. You're then backing up your images from your cards using the camera as an expensive card reader. But, where are you backing up too? The tablet has less space than the camera. Do we have external USB drive support yet in Sailfish? And which filesystems?

USB transfer is old school for cameras though. My camera has wifi. There's an android app to control the camera remotely and transfer files. It doesn't work on Sailfish however because I think it sets up an adhoc network between android and the camera. That kind of networking doesn't appear to be supported by Sailfish's android layer.

So as I said earlier, I bought a Sony Z3 compact tablet instead because it works in all of the possible usage modes outlined above already. I'm not happy it's running Android but it's the least bad option and maybe one day Jolla will get out a sailfish port. As a mobile photographers aid it works and Jolla shot themselves in the head here.