Windows Phone could soon get native File Browser

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Microsoft's Joe Belfiore announced that his team is working on having one ready in the Windows Phone Store hopefully by the end of the month, and even had screenshots to prove that it's pretty close to becoming final (shown below). Of course, Microsoft's OS isn't the only one that's mysteriously neglected this particular feature: iOS and stock Android don't have a dedicated file system, either (unless you count third-party apps), so this is a good opportunity for Windows Phone to set itself apart from one of its larger competitors.
I wonder if Symbian and JAVA based phones had it for several years, what is stopping these advanced OS to provide File browser feature.
 
I guess they didn't want users to explore the system at file level.. Whatever the files must be viewable in respective apps. Images in gallery app, videos in some media player, docs in some office app etc
 
Android has a dedicated file manager system. I think.
Isn't it?
 
mhsabir said:
I guess they didn't want users to explore the system at file level.. Whatever the files must be viewable in respective apps. Images in gallery app, videos in some media player, docs in some office app etc
In Symbian I remembered, if some file was important or system related, it was displayed, but user was not able to edit/delete it. Same could be followed here.
 
Yeah. I guess. Even BB10/pkayboom OS doesn't have .

@Moriarty - That would be a separate app available in market or bundled by manufacturers
 
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