maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - N900 will not allow USB OTG!

	icebox	2009-09-21 , 10:56
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Originally Posted by zerojay

I don't think I've ever even once used host mode or needed OTG at any point during my internet tablet use, and as Quim said, a lot of what the N900 has already negates the need for OTG/host mode in certain use cases.

So to those of you who are mourning the missing OTG/host mode, what were your day-to-day use cases where you needed them? What were you doing with your previous tablets and host mode?

Knowing the resourcefulness of the NIT community, I'm sure we can figure out alternative ways to make your use cases still work.

Easily swap files with colleagues / students when I was in school, use a usb ethernet adapter to connect to wired networks, usb external harddrive for the holliday. I started working with microcontrollers that know usb and want to explore this dirrection. Compact flash cardreader in order to download pictures from my dslr, s10sh for remote controlling my Canon dSLR

I mourn the loss of a feature that made the device more hackable. Yes you can use some device to copy files from thumbdrives, you can use a portable AP for wired networks, you can use cf-sd-microsd adapter in my canon camera, find another remote for it, 32Gb negates the need for an external harddrive and so on. But you'll end up with a bigger and more hairy mess of accessories to replace OTG. Much bigger bag than n800+e71+otg cable

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