This was fun yesterday. +Joe Ressington and +jesse had recorded some audio interviews at #opentech2015  for Linux Luddites using a Zoom H4N audio recorder which takes SD cards. They wanted to get the audio files to another remote presenter for editing. Unfortunately with no traditional laptops (just an HP Chromebook) the guys couldn't get the audio off the SD card. Joe asked around and borrowed an SD card reader, but that didn't work at all on his OnePlus One phone.

With 6 of us Linux nerds at the table and a couple of pints of beer, we brainstormed a solution. 

Ubuntu Phone to the rescue! :)

The reader worked just like it would on any other traditional Linux machine. It auto mounted and I copied the files into the microSD card in the phone which Jesse then copied via MTP to his Chromebook and off to Google Drive. We could also have easily compressed the audio files with flac or lame (after installing them) but that wasn't necessary in the end as the files were quite small.

We considered starting a simple python http server, and wget the files over the network, but the wifi didn't allow traffic between machines like that. The option was there had the wifi complied though, as this Ubuntu phone ships with Python pre-installed. 

While this isn't especially geeky or impressive, what I found fun was that we had a pocket-sized "real" Linux machine with which we could use solve the problem.