Shortly after arrival, I nicked my wife’s brand new Sony Ericsson W800i and plugged it into my Debian sid workstation using the included USB cable.

And here are the dmesg results from the Debian jury:

usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  Vendor: Sony Eri  Model: Memory Stick      Rev: 0000
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdc: 1921024 512-byte hdwr sectors (984 MB)
sdc: Write Protect is off
sdc: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdc: 1921024 512-byte hdwr sectors (984 MB)
sdc: Write Protect is off
sdc: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
 sdc: sdc1
Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
Unable to load NLS charset utf8
FAT: IO charset utf8 not found

Ubuntu (Hoary) will follow shortly