Figured AT&T and Verizon would find some way to bungle the SGS3: No Dropbox

gorcorps

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Something's not right here... if dropbox wanted to offer 50 free gigs to SGS3 users, they could. Why do they have have carrier buy in to offer that? There must have been something they needed/wanted from the carriers in exchange, otherwise there'd be no reason to even have them involved.
 

Bateluer

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Something's not right here... if dropbox wanted to offer 50 free gigs to SGS3 users, they could. Why do they have have carrier buy in to offer that? There must have been something they needed/wanted from the carriers in exchange, otherwise there'd be no reason to even have them involved.

Potential bandwidth? A good chunk of that storage could easily be uploaded over mobile data, not through WiFi.
 

Darknite39

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Just came here to post about this. [Damn] Verizon!!!

No profanity in the tech forums guys
-ViRGE
 
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NutBucket

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Potential bandwidth? A good chunk of that storage could easily be uploaded over mobile data, not through WiFi.
But what difference does it really make to Verizon given the tiered data plans? Just my opinion. I doubt most people would use it anyway.
 

gorcorps

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Potential bandwidth? A good chunk of that storage could easily be uploaded over mobile data, not through WiFi.

But wouldn't that'd be a point in the carrier's favor? Make more people pay more money for the higher tiers and such?
 

Puddle Jumper

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Looks like I won't be buying a SGS3 from At&t then. I wanted the 50gb of Dropbox space more than the actual phone.
 

Bateluer

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But wouldn't that'd be a point in the carrier's favor? Make more people pay more money for the higher tiers and such?

But what difference does it really make to Verizon given the tiered data plans? Just my opinion. I doubt most people would use it anyway.

Yes, yes it would.

Would be curious to see what reps from Verizon/AT&T state publicaly.
 

ilkhan

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Most likely Samsung's deal with dropbox had the carriers paying for the storage (at a reduced rate), and VZW and ATT decided to decline. Nothing wrong with that. They decided the subs they'd lose would cost less than purchasing the storage.
:shrug:

Unlike the OneX, you can have >32GB of storage on the phone, so its not exactly critical.
 
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I found the integration on dropbox to be lacking. I don't want to have to manually download the file I want, I want a folder I can push files to on my desktop before I leave that automatically uploads to the phone so that by the time I get to my car I can listen to the song.

So instead I run an FTP on my phone and send it that way.
 

Red Storm

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I found the integration on dropbox to be lacking. I don't want to have to manually download the file I want, I want a folder I can push files to on my desktop before I leave that automatically uploads to the phone so that by the time I get to my car I can listen to the song.

So instead I run an FTP on my phone and send it that way.

Google Music?

I am slightly bummed about this, but only slightly. Dropbox is more of a requirement on the iPhone, Android I have the freedom to do normal file transfers and whatnot.