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March 23, 2005
Microsoft Smartphone Bitch — More on the Audiovox SMT5600
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Ugh! I just found out that my Audiovox SMT5600 (that I did a mini review on here does not mount as a normal drive). You know, something that any USB drive does these days. Instead it appears as a special Mobile Device thingy mounted to My Computer in the Windows Explorer. WTF?
Now I can’t use my cool photo-downloading application (Downloader Pro from Breeze Systems). It can’t “see” that special Mobile Device thingy.
You know what I think? I think this smells like some sort of DRM fiasco. Smells like someone is trying to protect some lame-ass ringtone downloads from being copied or some such thing. Either that or Microsoft’s Smartphone Product Marketing Managers don’t know what they are doing.
I can help if it’s the latter.
- The Smartphone when connected to the user’s PC shall mount as a drive accessible to applications such as, by way of example, a photo downloading application.
Cut-and-paste that into the damn product marketing requirements document. Either that or stop screwing us with DRM.
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