Thread: N900 Specifications
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2009-09-07 , 14:57
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Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
As GeneralAntilles points out in the thread qole links to, I'm not being sloppy with language here - and thought the difference between these two statements would be clear. Perhaps I should have made the first and the inverse of the second:
  1. Nokia does not support host mode.
  2. The N900 does not permit host mode.

The word "support" in the question was not the word the questioner was looking for - it's too vague and has too many meanings in IT.
Correction accepted. I have edited my post accordingly, including apologies for misconstruing your answer.

I still think that power supply in host mode is a serious question. The usbLAN app by jolouis should have given Maemo a chance to grow out of the toyshop and find a market replacing some of the laptops and notebooks that travellers haul in their hand baggage. Connection to hotel-room data ports is a requirement for that market. So is a full-size keyboard (which can go in checked baggage), and many business users avoid bluetooth for security reasons. USB sticks are absolutely standard tools these days. It is not always possible to schedule a full battery when these things are needed.