Thread: N900 will not allow USB OTG!
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2010-02-19 , 17:19
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
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.
I'd have to add that an externally powered USB hub's with the correct wiring, resistors, etc are quite smaller than an N8xx - I've build several working prototypes in the past for various devices and they can be quite compact, let alone a fraction of the cost of an N8xx.

We may do R&D in getting USB host mode working on the N900; if and when that happens, we may very well decide to produce all in one hubs specifically for the N900 in the ~$20-25 range since we have the resources to produce them.
 

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