well, I'm not familiar with the cradle idea, maybe that can work. This idea is probably overkill, but I suppose we could have more than one kind of power port in these things. You know, like what we have now plus a mini usb port that would be just for power.

Although hopefully the n8xx will evolve to the point where the miniusb will simply be capable of switching between enabled data and power or both at once.

But it appears mostly what you are hoping for right now is a 90 degree power adapter. Wish I could help with that. In this huge high tech market, I would think someone would have something like that.

Neil