Google Drive Review | Telecom Consumer Discussion Forums

Installing & Setup

The install process itself was simple, straight forward and literally faultless, searching for ‘drive’ on the Google Play store brought up the application I was looking for as the top returned result, not quite unexpected as Google didn’t make their name in the search industry for being able to bake cakes now did they.

After the Pull down from Google Play the usual process of application installing went with out a hitch and then opening the application for the first time presented me with a nice, well-ordered welcoming screen. The welcoming screen servers two purposes one it allows the application to set up silently in the background if it’s able too and two it’s supposed to give you a brief look at how to use the application i.e this is where the vendor drills home the basic fundamentals of the application itself and to Google’s eternal credit they managed that if I was to find one fault it would be the screen with the baby, the baby was indeed cute and the images told me a lot but I think a cool graphic here of a file moving between types of devices would have really blown me away..I’m picky in that regard

Usage, Flexibility, Reliability

The first two items I would like to discuss from the title are flexibility and reliability so after taking my screenshots I needed a way to get them back to my laptop to get them up to this page and well I don’t have a USB port, my bluetooth on my Mac and Phone do not get along with one another so Google Drive was the first obvious thought.. it was not the first application I intended to review but due to it saving my brain too much hard work .. it gets the honour of becoming and forever being known as the first, numero uno!

Keeping it simple, it did exactly what I wanted it to do, at a speed that worked for me, I wanted an entire folder onto my Google Drive synced in a flash.. so I headed over the Gallery, long pressed on my folder to select the entire thing, hit the share button hit the Google Drive button done.. everything is now syncing..perfect .. well almost

If your anything like me and I really hope your own sake you are not but if you are you struggle with the need to put things into specific places, everything has its own folder, files should be neat etc.. The one click share option did exactly what I wanted it to do in the sense that I would have been happy for another screen in the process to ask me where exactly i.e create a new folder however that’s not what happened instead I ended up with some 25 files dumped into the root of my Google Drive which then echoed on my laptop.. my need to sort and order went into overdrive and well the rest is history.

This will not be an issue for most, if anyone else on the planet but for me it is and it’s something I would have not liked to have had to waste my time on.. even if it was only an extra 2-3 minutes tops but outside of that the App was amazing, it did exactly what I wanted it to do in all the right places and the click and option present may actually be a fault of android itself and not Google Drive.

So now to put all the numbers into the system and see what comes out but anyone looking for a simple cloud solution with enough power to kick the snot out of the competitions cloud too – Google Drive may be just what you are looking for.

d complex may i ask, I can probably guide you n the right direction.