That may answer the multimedia file question, but what about backups and ad hoc file transfers.
I haven't a clue why they dropped this support. It's one thing to emulate the iPhone's touch screen and non-WAP browser, and another thing to emulate its shortcomings. (Personally, I think Safari is a shortcoming, but that's up for debate. I guess there are people who say lack of removable media is no big deal, but I doubt anyone thinks it is a positive step.) On Tuesday 13 January 2009 08:27:06 am Levi Wallach wrote: > I'm not convinced that the lack of an SD card is a huge downside. I > certainly have more content than that (I could fill my 160GB iPod if I > wanted to put everything on it), but for now the highest microSD is 16GB. > That may go up to 32GB in 2009, but as all of us expand our music and > video libraries, this is a "race" that solid state memory will never "win." > With Orb, you can access everything on your PC (terabytes of content if > you want) wirelessly. They have it for WM devices and maybe others now, I > don't doubt you'll have something similar to this for WebOS. This is kind > of like the cloud I guess except that you host all your content at home on > your home PC. With Hulu, YouTube, Pandora, and Last.FM allowing you to > stream lots of commercial and non-commercial audio and video, SprintTV > there for live events, there's not a whole lot left. One nice addition > would be if I could use my Netflix instant watch to stream movies. I know > I'm not alone but I haven't heard of plans to do this. > > I think all of this kind of leads to a divide in the way of thinking about > audio and video. Some people still like the ownership model. They don't > trust companies to give them unending access and want to "own" an album or > song and keep it forever. I can understand wanting this for personal audio > video or photos, but for commercial stuff, I think we are not TOO far off > from a day when it's all out there and we pay some kind of all-you-can-eat > rental fee that either gets attached to our internet connection plan, or > directly to some association of artists. Maybe not in the next few years, > but I'm guessing within the next 15 or 20 at any rate... > > Levi > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > > Art Alexion > > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:02 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Treo] Brighthand previews the Pre > > > > On 01/13/2009 Craig Froehle wrote: > > > So the list of things webOS doesn't have is looking kinda long at > > > > this point: > > > - external storage support > > > > 8 GB aside, this is really troublesome as the SD card > > * Facilitates transfer of files when HotSyncing isn't available. > > * is critical for truly useful backup software. > > > > The first is a show stopper if these things don't connect to non- > > windows > > boxes. > > > > The second may also be. Just Sunday, a VersaMail attachment (jpeg) > > brought my Centro down completely (endless boot loop). A hard reset > > and > > an NVBackup restore and I was back in business in 10 minutes. Tha's > > not > > going to happen if hard resets are occasionally required with WebOS. > > I'll suppose there will be some online backup service but I want a > > local > > option as well.
