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

	qole	2010-02-15 , 18:03
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Originally Posted by pelago

Although fun, this is not really the solution most are looking for! This is pretty much the same as plugging an N900 and USB flash/hard drive into a PC and dragging files from one drive to another, using the PC as USB host. I think most people here are looking to be able to connect USB devices directly to an N900, carrying a minimum amount of extra equipment.

I still argue that an N8x0 tablet is a minimum of extra equipment. You're just not going to find a PC this small anywhere else.

I'm pretty confident that the hardware limitations of the N900 mean that you're going to need the battery pack, power injection cable and the hub even if you manage to hack the N900 to be a USB host.

The N8x0 tablets are very compact little devices, and are much more capable and easier to hack than anything else proposed so far. The problem is finding one if you don't have one already.

Oh, and if you don't want quite so many cables, you can also push files from the tablet (and the connected USB device) to the N900 via bluetooth or wifi. I saw my N900 show up on the N800's file manager under bluetooth, even before I connected it via USB.

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