Thread: N900 will not allow USB OTG!
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2009-09-21 , 22:18
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Originally Posted by BruceL View Post
No. AFAICT, All they would have had to do was NOT solder the connection that disables OTG. It isn't a matter of not being able to do it. It sounds like the feature was actively DISABLED. There is no lesson to learn. They could have made it work, but for politics.
USB standard, required for certification, does not allow that. This isn't a deliberate attempt to piss off customers. It is because of USB standard doesn't allow, time contraints, and tough design decision between USB charging and USB host mode. See: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/mae...er/020830.html

MMS is unavailable not to piss us off but because of time contrains. BlueTooth DUN can be added 3rd party via BlueZ. Nokia is really doing its best to please us (!!!) but sometimes they have to decide between 2 (or more) decisions while the outcome will always lead to angry feedback on t.m.o... sometimes decisions are tough... and you cannot make everyone happy...

And the beauty of Apple is that they are able to make tough design decisions, following a clean interface HIG, providing a good SDK.

What I don't like though is the vague restrictions and that Christian Anglo-Saxon moral shoven up my throat (violence good, sexual bad).

Nor do I like the intentional crippling of the device. Such as BlueTooth disabled on iPod 2nd generation. And then enabling it for 10 EUR software update, but only providing AD2P profile (e.g. no SPP). Or not allowing BlueTooth DUN. Or not allowing 3rd party repositories. Nokia is not like that. Nokia welcomes 3rd party repositories in Maemo. Nokia did not intentionally cripple BlueTooth they allow DUN via 3rd party community support. And Nokia did not intentionally cripple USB on N900 either; see the mail I link to above!!!
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