SkyDrive for Android is Out

[rcpratt]

300 MB file size limit? That's disappointing, and limits the primary use that I had in mind (transferring TV/movies to mobile devices).

If they at least made it like 1GB, that would be nice. I know it started at 50MB, so at least they're moving up.

edit: Functionality is also severely limited on Android. I can't move files to different folders from the app, really?'

edit2: They also have a "fetch files" feature that sounds like it basically allows you to browse a PC's directories remotely and fetch or upload whatever you'd like. Which sounds awesome. No Android support for it though, which makes it useless.

edit3: Been testing it. I can download files to my phone from my computer - even larger than 300MB (very, very slowly). I can remotely upload things on my PC to SkyDrive (very, very, very slowly). But I can't do it with the app. I have to go to the website.

Blah. Pick up the app development pace.

edit4: It's uploading from my PC at about...150 kB/s. I don't have a good way (that I know of) to check my dl speeds on my phone, but it looks to be about half of my upload on my PC...so aout 75 kB/s (they're currently both on the same connection).

As a bonus, it does appear that it's letting me upload >300 MB files from my PC - but only remotely. Yay, workarounds!

 

[lothar]

Microsoft is the only one with a morality policy and regularly hunts down users that violates it. Yes obviously storing sensitive files on the cloud is stupid and you should be careful regardless of the service you use but MS policy is just downright silly

http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-may-lose-your-microsoft-life/

http://wmpoweruser.com/microsoft-monitoring-censoring-skydrive-uploads/

http://wmpoweruser.com/microsoft-plays-the-child-pornography-card-in-skydrive-privacy-debacle/

for example they dont allow "partial nudity" which is a vague term. That could mean your account being banned because your girl took a picture of you on the beach even if it was stored on a private folder and not shared. This also includes cartoons so a marvel comic with Hulk could also be viewed as violating the terms.

That german photographers picture was more conservative than stuff you can find on mainstream magazines like Maxim for god sake

Wow...That is absolutely ridiculous.
But I suppose if it's in their ToS, then they can do whatever they want.

Thank you for providing the info.

 

[xSauronx]

My DropBox jumped up to 8GB after I uploaded a good amount of pictures and video from the camera. I find that 8GB more than covers everything I use it for.

yeah i got upped to 5gb and need to move things back over, probably will soon

id *love* to have dropbox and skydrive both sync up the same folder but it doesnt look like they will. skydrive is fantastic if only for office document viewing.

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

lol even searching that it won't show up in the top 6. it'll show up at the bottom.

i question google's search capabilities

its because search shows apps by popularity, and right when it came out in probably only had a few downloads. I just searched xbox live, then scrolled down to more apps by this developer, and found it there.