Maybe transfer it later to his desktop-pc?
On 20 Aug., 09:59, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A third party developer is free to write an application that
> understands the zip MIME type and does something with it that the user
> might care about. This functionality is not currently provided as
> part of the base platform.
>
> Why do you want to download on to your phone a zip file or some other
> file type that you can't do anything with?
>
> On Aug 19, 3:54 pm, Sir Nobax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Not sure if this is the right place, but I have a (simple?) question
> > about the Download Manger integrated in the 0.90 SDK Emulator.
> > Soo, I tried, just to familiarize myself with my common use of a phone
> > on Android, to surf 'the web' a bit, downloading some pictures, little
> > bit of messing around, i.e. just playing. (and so far I like it :D )
> > However, when I tried to download a ZIP file, the download manager
> > refused to download it, giving the following 'error':
>
> > "<Unkown>
> > download2us.softpedia.com
> > Cannot download. The content being downloaded is not supported on the
> > phone."
>
> > Uh, what? First, no ZIP support? Why no ZIP support?
> > Second, why won't it download the file, or at least let the user be
> > able to force the download it, by e.g. a "Download Anyway" button that
> > appears when you 'long-press' it.
>
> > I hope I am missing some hidden options or something, because, if it
> > is true, that there is a very limited amount of files I would be able
> > to download, I'd consider that a MAJOR drawback.
>
> > Anyone that can comment on this 'problem'?
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