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2007-04-26 , 10:12
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Originally Posted by joku View Post
You can connect a usb keyboard to the nokia 770. I saw this at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSMKO_sbncY

and an other interesting link about nokia 770 + usb keyboard, which I don't understand :-)
http://tabletblog.com/2006/01/usb-po...host-mode.html

I hope that it is possible to connect a usb-keyboard to a n800. But how?
Here's "770-USB 101":

The USB port of the 770 can be forced into host mode (the mode where you can plug all kinds of interesting stuff into your 770 and make it go with it) via a software hack. That's the easy part.

The problem is the hardware: Nokia didn't see fit to connect power to the USB port in the 770, meaning that all that interesting stuff won't go, because there's no power to make it go. There is a hardware hack (that's the second link you referred to) that will give external power to your 770's USB port and make aforementioned interesting stuff go: "Ahhhh -- power! Nice...", but it's not trivial and you need to read the instructions carefully.