Saksham Sharma
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People, there's a pocket file manager app, it does 95% of the things you can ask from a file manager ever, try it...
File manager? I doubt it. The apps in the WP use sandboxing meaning that every app owns its storage. A file manager only could deal with files in the SD card and maybe (I doubt it too) dealing with music and photo files.
It's exactly the same problem than in iOS.
Not this discussion again.... sigh.
Let's all wait for WP8.1 to be released officially in a couple of weeks then we can see what this so called 'file manager' is. I don't think it will be anything like Android or Symbian.
As for USBOG, whatever makes the masses happy I suppose. I'm sure lots of people will be happy about that.
So we'll have HID support so people can get their keyboards and mice. Now USBOTG for a media HDD. Then you add a file manager and look a computer! So much for smartphones being smartphones....
I did like WP. So much for it being 'unique'.
'unique' is slang for being crippled now? Smartphones ARE computers, nothing wrong with that as long as they can include all those features in a user friendly way.
Take a look at Windows RT, which supports files properly - all it lacks is a Metro file manager. It will work the same way here. There will be a file explorer that will also let you look at cloud storages you have. I think it is a very good feature. With Microsoft merging Windows RT and Windows Phone, there's no point in not bringing something like that over.Smartphones are computesr, but they are not your desktop PCs. To ask for the same old experience even on your mobile devices of the present as compared to the PCs of old is living in the past. Recognise that the explorer is not a piece of software that makes or breaks an experience. While it may satisfy some people whining about PC features on their phones, I sure hope that MS dosnt keep dumping "features" for features sake. All I care for is for usability, and not for features. The is a _difference_.
WP is unique, let it be so. And have some patience and more importantly a respect for choice. If you want an android-like windows phone, why not just go out and get an android phone ?
Stop acting like it's open to discussion anymore, Windows Phone is getting a file manager and it's final. It was bound to happen ever since Microsoft announced it was merging Windows RT and Windows Phone. If you use Metro apps in Windows 8 or RT, you can see how they will work in WP8.1. I think it is a very good implementation - apps can't do things to the file system without user's permission. Most apps will still behave the same way they do now, but apps like photo or text editors will be able to properly access files not only from your phone, but also from Dropbox (once an app launches) or OneDrive without you having to sign in to them every time.
I'd love to see your proof of your statement that it's 'getting a file manager'. Just because there is a merging happening doesn't mean anything.
There are many ways to do things without a file manager. iPhones seem to work perfectly fine without one and appear quite popular. So your assumption, and it is that, is unfounded.
A file manager as most people want it, will not exist in WP, ever. If anything, it will simply be an extension of OneDrive and that's it. Not much else is needed.