On plugging in my iPhone 3GS, dmesg gives me: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=1294 usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 1-1: Product: iPhone usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Apple Inc. usb 1-1: SerialNumber: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Furthermore, under VirtualBox I can access the phone, synch it etc. The VBox USB pop-up also identifies it as an "Apple iPhone". However the Device Notifier pop-up says it a Sony DCR-SR75, which I think is a digital camera (the only menu option is "Download Photos with Digikam"). Clearly some database somewhere is corrupt, but where? poc