My rant is focused on just one point, and I consider it a major one. In the course of the review, here is something Mariam said: There. Hope you read it clearly. First it was Apple, then Microsoft, and now Google. Everyone is leaving USB mass storage functionality and file management out of their mobile OS. And we are talking of smartphones replacing or becoming more like PCs? I want to organize my files, but I can’t. Also, I want to select a specific location for each download; oh, I can’t. I want to plug my smartphone to a PC and copy certain files from one location to another, but I can’t. I want to copy not just music and video files that some stupid synchronization software recognizes, but all sorts of files, for storage on my smartphone. I can’t.
Possible Reasons?
To avoid Microsoft license fees? Nonsense. Pay the damn fees and let’s have this feature. Oh, and is Microsoft scared of their own patents too? Sheesh. Performance and stability? Cripes; file management is not rocket science. It works excellently on Symbian and on MeeGo. It worked smoothly on Windows Mobile (remember that dinosaur?). Why can it not work nicely on our GHz-toting super-phones?
Choices
I have been aching at the lack of file management and mass storage on Windows Phone and telling myself that I may have to go Android eventually, in spite of some of its other niggles. iOS? No mass storage cum file management either. This generation of nicely dressed up dumbphones! Now, Google’s doggone thrown this out too; right? If this is true, what are we left with? Where are the choices? Looks like I’m going to die using a Symbian or MeeGo smartphone. What I’ll do is buy about five more Nokia N8s, two more N9s, and a number of the upcoming 1GHz+ Symbian devices – enough to last me till 2071 when hopefully I’ll be too old to care anymore – or be dead.
More Information Coming
Understand that what is going on with Android 4.0 (ICS) is not totally clear now. The details, the reasons, and the prospects are all pretty much still shrouded. But I needed to rant. Don’t pay me any bit of attention. No-one does anyway. In the next few days and weeks, we should get the full picture. Still, you must wonder whether smartphones are really becoming more like PCs or not. At least in certain ways. Read Tnkgrl’s review: Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ first impressions (video)
Update on USB Mass Storage and File Management
Here’s the true picture of the scenario, as pulled out of the comments section (read through the comments for full details):
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