On Saturday, Aug 4th 2007 at 17:35 -1000, quoth David Burns: =>I got mine from verizon, they have intentionally crippled it so you =>can't do that, among other things. Try another service provider. => =>On 8/4/07, Steven W. Orr <steveo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: =>> It would make a difference in my decision to buy the phone if I can access =>> my memory card on the phone as a USB device. Ok. Let me rephrase the question. I see that the phones take a little memory card (with which I have no experience). If I get an sd memory card for the phone and a card reader to plug into my linux platform, will the sd card appear as a mountable disk the same way that a thumb drive appears? (I could live with that.) Switching away from verizon btw is not an option. In this neck of the woods, they're the only provider that really works. -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net