Blackberry 8300

Recently (8/21/2007) obtained a Blackberry 8300 (Curve) and seeing how desktop/laptop integration with Linux (my laptop is currently running Ubuntu Feisty).

Hooking up the USB cable, the output from lsusb shows.

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0fca:0006 Research In Motion, Ltd.

This appears in /var/log/messages

Aug 23 08:18:58 mdf-laptop kernel: [89919.164000] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Aug 23 08:18:58 mdf-laptop kernel: [89919.340000] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Aug 23 08:18:59 mdf-laptop kernel: [89919.788000] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
Aug 23 08:18:59 mdf-laptop kernel: [89919.816000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Aug 23 08:18:59 mdf-laptop kernel: [89919.820000] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Aug 23 08:18:59 mdf-laptop kernel: [89919.820000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
Aug 23 08:18:59 mdf-laptop kernel: [89919.820000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
Aug 23 08:19:04 mdf-laptop kernel: [89924.824000] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     RIM      BlackBerry SD  
 0001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 CCS
Aug 23 08:19:04 mdf-laptop kernel: [89924.828000] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
Aug 23 08:19:04 mdf-laptop kernel: [89924.828000] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Aug 23 08:19:55 mdf-laptop kernel: [89975.440000] SCSI device sdb: 990976 512-byte hdwr sectors (507 MB)
Aug 23 08:19:55 mdf-laptop kernel: [89975.444000] sdb: Write Protect is off
Aug 23 08:19:55 mdf-laptop kernel: [89975.452000] SCSI device sdb: 990976 512-byte hdwr sectors (507 MB)
Aug 23 08:19:55 mdf-laptop kernel: [89975.456000] sdb: Write Protect is off
Aug 23 08:19:55 mdf-laptop kernel: [89975.456000]  sdb: sdb1

Well Feisty was nice enough to automount the storage for me, and a USB "Disk" icon appears on my desktop.

Let's see how digital music files are support. I drop an MP3 and OGG into BlackBerry/music/

Go to Media and the MP3 appears, the OGG does not.

Well, the sound quality is really good, anyway.