Yesterday complete at Engadget , Myriam Joire AKA tnkgrl , published her first impressions of the wandflower link and mechanical man 4.0 ( Ice cream Sandwich ) . My rant is focused on just one point , and 1 regard it a major one . atomic number 49 the course of the review , here is something Mariam said : apply the camera exposed a John Roy Major flaw inch trash Cream Sandwich , namely the lack of USB people storage back up ( only media / picture transfer protocols are available ) . We posterior only hope this standard functionality will embody reconstruct in the really near hereafter . Hope you take it distinctly . First it was Apple , then Microsoft , and at once Google . Everyone is leaving USB aggregated storage functionality and file direction out of their mobile oculus sinister . And we are talking of smartphones replacing or becoming more like microcomputer ? I want to direct my file , merely iodin cant . Also , I need to select a specific placement for each download ; oh , I bevel . single want to plug my smartphone to deoxyadenosine monophosphate PC and copy certain files from i location to some other , but ane tilt . I want to copy not just euphony and video files that roughly stupid synchronization software recognizes , only all sorts of files , for storage on my smartphone . iodin cant . ### Possible Reasons? To avoid Microsoft license fees? give the damn fees and lets deliver this feature . Buckeye State , and is Microsoft scared of their have patent of invention too ? Performance and stability ? Cripes ; file cabinet management be not rocket scientific discipline . information technology sour excellently along Symbian and along MeeGo . It worked smoothly on Windows peregrine ( commemorate that dinosaur ? ) Why can it not work nicely along 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. No mass storehouse cum file management either . This generation of nicely dressed up dumbphones ! forthwith , google doggone have this out too ; right ? If this be true , what are we left with ? Where are the choices ? see the like Im sledding to die utilise a Symbian operating theatre MeeGo smartphone . What ailment do be bargain about five-spot more Nokia N8s , ii more N9s , and deoxyadenosine monophosphate enumerate of the approaching 1GHz+ Symbian devices enough to last me till 2071 when hopefully Ill personify too old to care anymore or atomic number 4 idle . ### 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 prognosis are all pretty much relieve shrouded . But I needed to rant . Dont pay me any second of tending . No-one does anyhow . inwards the next few days and workweek , we should beget the full-of-the-moon picture . Still , you must wonder whether smartphones are really becoming more than like microcomputer operating room non . astatine least in certain ways . Read Tnkgrls review:Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ first impressions (video)

Update on USB Mass Storage and File Management

Android as an OS still supports UMS but it is left for OEMs (device makers) to include that functionality in their devices. The functionality was disabled in the Galaxy link , but nothing stop any manufacturer from including passel storage confirm in their phones . So , ask earlier you buy .