Thread: TV/Monitor Output or Docking Station
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urilabob is offline urilabob
2007-07-26 , 12:34
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Originally Posted by harknell View Post
I suspect this would be mostly impossible if not highly difficult to achieve, but it would be awesome if the N800 could output to a TV or PC monitor through the USB out. Then it would really be a replication of an UMPC for me (actually, a full docking station through the USB out would be best I guess).

Obviously I know it wasn't designed for anything more than it's Internet Tablet ability (which is great and what I mostly use it for) but the ability to actually dock it would be a bonus.
Actually, I think Nokia are missing a _huge_ market here - put a mini-dvi slave off the screen onto the N800, and it would have massive appeal as a portable presentation tool - the screen resolution would be just fine for most presentations (Ideally through a ported openoffice, but exporting the presentation to pdf would be enough).

It _may_ be possible to achieve the effect by combining the existing work on modding the USB port with the linux driver for USB-VGA adapters:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/AddVGAAdapter
However I suspect there would still be a huge amount of work to get it working.