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Is finally live here

http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/introducing-google-drive-yes-really.html

Today, we’re introducing Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. Whether you’re working with a friend on a joint research project, planning a wedding with your fiancé or tracking a budget with roommates, you can do it in Drive. You can upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and beyond.
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Android people can install it here or just look for an update on Google Docs.

Keep everything. Share anything.
*** Google Docs is now a part of Google Drive! ***
* Keep everything. Share anything.
* With Google Drive, you can store all your files in one place, so you can access them from anywhere and share them with others
* Use the Google Drive Android app to access your photos, documents, videos and other files stored on your Google Drive
* Upload files to Google Drive directly from your Android device
* Share any file with your contacts
* Access files others have shared with you on Google Drive
* Make any file available offline so you can access them even when you don't have an Internet connection
* Create and edit Google documents with rich text formatting
* Edits to your Google documents appear to collaborators in seconds
* Make quick changes to spreadsheets
* View your PDFs, presentations and more
* Upload and convert files to the Google Docs format
* Take a photo of printed text and convert it to a Google document
* Optimized experience to take advantage of larger screens for tablet users, Honeycomb (Android 3.0+)
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Just like the Loch Ness Monster, you may have heard the rumors about Google Drive. It turns out, one of the two actually does exist.
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Someone at Google has a great sense of humour :D
 
Nexus18 said:
5GB of storage...........

meh

Rocking 30.9GB of storage on dropbox! :D
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Any of that to do with the HTC One additional 25GB?

I installed it just for a nosy. I use GDocs for some personal things (budgets etc) so it converted me automatically... Not installed the app yet.
 
Richie said:
Any of that to do with the HTC One additional 25GB?

I installed it just for a nosy. I use GDocs for some personal things (budgets etc) so it converted me automatically... Not installed the app yet.
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Yup! :p :D


I will check google drive out later but I can't see myself using it at all as;

- storage
- I rather have everything organized and in one place using just the one app rather than 2
 
I had 49.9 GB with Dropbox before HTC took away mine, bar stewards. Now I only have 26.9 GB.

5 GB is plenty of storage though, so I'm transferring my stuff over :)
 
I have a Dropbox as well but its empty and I never use it. TBH I am only using GDrive because I use GDocs for a couple of things and it will eventually be changed automatically so I thought I would just start the inevitable.
 
I haven't used any of them (GDrive, SkyDrive etc) so couldn't tell you the differences e.g. app integration etc but it seems people are basing their opinion on what is better simply down to how much space you get as opposed to what functions are supported, how fast it is, how reliable etc... Weird...

So if I gave people 100GB for free but it was slow and unreliable it would be classed better? :p
 
Meh, welcome to the world Google. Dropbox already has it beat for most folk who use it. Already packing 13gb on mine.
 
Richie said:
I haven't used any of them (GDrive, SkyDrive etc) so couldn't tell you the differences e.g. app integration etc but it seems people are basing their opinion on what is better simply down to how much space you get as opposed to what functions are supported, how fast it is, how reliable etc... Weird...

So if I gave people 100GB for free but it was slow and unreliable it would be classed better? :p
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I don't see any basis for thinking it will be unreliable or that there will be any speed issues. I'm sure that Google can handle most people's home broadband speeds.

And it's hardly rocket science when it comes to a service, it's just online storage. 99% people will just want a folder on their PC and an app for their phone/tablet.
 
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OK maybe I'm being dumb but do I actually have to upload phone photos one by one from my phone. Why the hell have Google not done their own version of photostream?

This is a painfully deficient process
 
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