New N8 appears to support USB Host mode
 

According to this article:

http://nokiaexperts.com/hurray-threa...rted-nokia-n8/

One of the features of the N8 is that you can plug a USB hard drive or USB stick into it (provided it is either low powered or externally powered).

This bodes well for the N900 replacement also having USB Host mode re-enabled; hopefully at least. ;)

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Hmm will the adaptor work with N900? USB OTG is possible aslong we get the external power and trigger the usb host. But not sure if it ever possible with N900 and this adaptor?

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A USB stick is sufficiently low power that it will power through the device (the external power requirement is for USB hard drives).

And yes, the N8 is not an n900 replacement, but as Nokia are slotting the Maemo devices as more computer than phone, I'd be very surprised if a feature like that is rolled out in the Symbian N-series and doesn't wind up on their Meego devices.

It's certainly not a slam dunk, but for them to have gotten it working on the N8 they would have had to intentionally build that capability in. I presume that the odds are better than not that the next Meego device won't backtrack from that decision.

Maybe I'm just trying to be optimistic.

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usb stick charging?

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In this link, Nokia announces the standard sales package as "Nokia N8 mobile computer"!

N8 seems to be Symbian's answer to Maemo's masterpiece. The phone specs are no doubt brilliant. Feature wise it seems to be too good but how well these are implemented needs to be seen. However, seeing the initial videos I feel the UI of Maemo is better.

Dumping all available features on the market and using the storehouse of symbian apps is in no way level-playing and definitely doesn't mean the N8 is better. Even without the multi-touch or the HDMI out or the USB plugin modes N900 is still in a league of its own. Let's face it - how many mobiles are out there that are "really" open-source and developer friendly!

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Mobile Computer phrase have been used since N95.
It's already explained that by 2011 when MeeGo is the high end platform it will gather the more of the tech savy people and people who look for more complete functions from a phone.

N8 is most of all multimedia monster. I have no doubt that this well kick N900 *** sales wise, but because of Qt4.6 that's nothing else than a positive thing for us that are looking for PR1.2 or Harmattan/MeeGo in the future. ;)

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Wasn't the reason they didn't put USB Host Mode in the N900 because of the USB Consortium's rules about using the same port to charge and do USB host?

If so..what differs the N8 then? o.O

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The ports are different afaik
Type A vs B

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Symbian is open source?

N900 also has closed source elements...?

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OTG, it allows a device to be "host" unless it encounters a true host, use a special AB port.

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USB host would be such a killer feature on the N900, shame Nokia didn't include it... Think of the possibilities:

- Plug in your real camera and upload photos you took with it.
- Copy files from a friends disk-on-key without needing a computer.
- Plug in a printer (is it possible?) to quickly print documents you have on your phone.

I honestly don't know if all the above are possible, but if they were, and the next N9xx had them, I'd never consider another phone again.

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I've remote-controlled my EOS 350D with s10sh and used 160GB USB HDD with my N800.

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The first two are possible and already a reality for devices with USB OTG. Printing would require support from software and (I guess) printer drivers, so it isn't as easy as just plugging the device in.

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iirc, there is already a bluetooth printing profile, so some kind of simple printing could be done.

also, there is the pictbridge system, that allows a camera to be hooked up to a printer for handling images.

for known formats, pure text, photos and similar, printing should be possible. Now complex documents, with detailed payouts and such, may be a different story.

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Couldn't you just rebuild gutenprint to support the arm architecture?