No K800i driver hassles with GNU/Linux ;)

A funny thing happened when I plugged my mobile (Sony Ericsson K800i CyberShot) into a WinXP machine, it couldn't access the device at all! I had to go and download (and install as Administrator) a whole suite of Sony applications coming in at about 45MB just to be able to copy a my high-res photos off the phone.

Being a GNU/Linux user I'm not used to having all this faffing around and manually installing drivers (reminds me of the 90s), my K800i is fully supported out of the box, even on my old Kubuntu desktop! Just plug in the USB cable, and a window pops up with all the phones files for me to copy ;)