On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 20:43 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:
Incidentally, I understand that Android hasn’t removed support for
USB
mass storage: it’s just that many recent devices come without support
for SD cards, so there’s nothing to export as USB mass storage. This
means the Android device *and* the computer can both access the shared
data at the same time, there aren’t any problems with jolts causing
momentary disconnects of the SD card, and it gives the designers more
freedom, especially with phones that have sealed-in batteries (so no
battery cover to hide the SD card).
The Galaxy Nexus has a "virtual SD card", which is apparently why the
phone doesn't present itself directly as a storage device over USB and
forces the use of MTP for access.
(Note that it does have a removable battery though.)
poc