The 2mm charger plug could be a special Nokia invention, but it's hardly difficult to find a charger with one of those plugs on. My local £1 shop sells USB multi chargers with them on.

The main reason for not doing charge-via-USB seems to be because of the internal memory cards. If you plug your NIT into a PC, what do you want to happen? To charge, to sync files or what? How can you tell it in a way that is non-technical and fairly obvious? You can't, can you?

Obviously you can't allow both the PC and the NIT to write to the flash at the same time, that'd be a horrible mess.

It would be nice if the NITs came with special USB cables that had a regular USB connector on the PC end, and then a Y at the other with the USB data and a mini jack plug for charging. They could do away with providing a mains charger then.

All this mess could be removed by natively supporting WIFI file transfers and then removing the USB connector all together. It'd be so much nicer if my N810 appeared on my Samba network so I could just drop files on it. I have tried this using SSH {SCP or RSync}, but it's really slow and prone to randomly stopping.