Windows Phone Team shows off new Skydrive in Mango
As a Windows Phone 7 user, you shouldn’t be jealous of Apple’s iCloud service. Most of the functionality in iCloud is already baked into your phone via SkyDrive and Hotmail. The good folks from the Windows Phone Team posted a story to show us how it all works together. It’s a great primer for SkyDrive/Hotmail integration in general (if you don’t already have a Push capable email account, they link off to explain how to forward your current email to Hotmail, which does), and to sweeten the deal they have included screenshots of the improvements we mentioned a week ago. Those features include:
- Share photos stored on SkyDrive by way of email, text messages, IM - "SkyDrive lets you store thousands of pictures in the cloud. You can show them off to friends on your phone in the Pictures hub, and now you can share SkyDrive photos with anyone over email, text, or Messenger/Facebook."
- Share videos on SkyDrive - "With Mango, all the goodness you had with photos has been extended to videos. Once you’re finished shooting your video, you can caption it and share immediately on SkyDrive, and the upload will happen in the background while you move on to other things."
- Browse and search documents stored on SkyDrive - "Windows Phone lets you view folders and files directly on your phone, so when you group things on SkyDrive, you know they’ll be available with the same folder structure on your phone."
- See what’s been shared with you - "More than 70% of the folders created on SkyDrive are shared with other people, which makes it all the more important to see everything shared with you on your phone. This pivot view will show you the complete list of documents shared with you, letting you open and edit in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint."
- Search your SkyDrive documents - "If you store a lot of stuff on SkyDrive, being able to do a quick search is important. In the Office hub, you can easily search across your SkyDrive for the document you need without having to wade through your folders and other files."
Overall, a nice little package. Of course, it's already been mentioned by Micrsoft themselves that Skydrive will probably fold into the general LIVE services, including Xbox. So this is just the beginning of Redmond's big "cloud push".
Source: Inside Windows Live
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WixosTrix says:
Will be world class!
JAStark27 says:
Can the icloud do this? If not point windows phone lol
Light Speed1 says:
no it cant. it cant even hold photos for more than 30 days.
kim thran says:
The problem is Skydrive itself. It suffers too many issues or restrictions at the moment that makes it not convenient at all, and not competitive at all:- No folder uploading. Wtf.- 50MB uploading restriction.- No way to delete a batch of files. This is unbelievable.So, unfortunately, I will keep on using Dropbox until all the major problems above are solved. :(
Smg-Uk says:
There is a area to Sync folders and that also lets you upload files bigger than 50mb however yes there should be a way of batch deleting.
Tahiti Bob says:
Agree with Kim. Also there's a massive exposure issue as many people don't know what Skydrive is, even Hotmail users. I'd been a Hotmail users for ages before I learned about Skydrive.Best way to remedy that on the phone side is to make it a proper app. Then there's the issue with the type of files, the restrictions, etc.
laserfloyd says:
Batch deletion is my most immediate complaint. I had bunches of bad/unusable photos from my phone in my skydrive and had to manually delete them all one at a time. Batch deletion please. :)
Irdial says:
Ability to delete uploaded photos please. It's annoying that i have to login on my PC to delete a photo i accidentally uploaded to SkyDrive.
