Looks like I'm not a user though :) can't just connect my Android phone right away ... really?
See Can't transfer files from Android to Ubuntu via USB cable - Ask Ubuntu
"After digging around I found that Ubuntu doesn't include MTP support by default, which is needed to do general file transfers with Android. I opened a terminal and typed:
sudo apt-get install gmtp
Yea' that was kind of my 2nd thought. 3rd?
