Originally Posted by Dave999

hi. swedish readers of magazine mobil.se had a chat with klas ström. product manager in sweden. used google transaltor.

Originally Posted by pelago

Can you link to the article, and maybe someone can translate it better? That Google translation is hard to understand.

Daniel: Hi. I think the N900 is really interesting, but have a couple of questions. In an interview here on mobil.se you mentioned that N900 has digital compass. Does it? (Augmented reality would then be possible ). FM radio wasn't in the speficication but was in the phone anyway! Another feature which is interesting is USB host like the N810 has. Does it have any other gems which haven't been shown yet? Question 2: Maemo Apps/programs will be sold in Ovi Store, and will to a great extent be opensource. But what about larger companies like EA will they sell/develop games for N900? Have read that there are problems with DRM protection or does that only apply to music? Can we expect more games in the same class as Bounce? In other words will you be able to buy programs/games in Ovi store?

Klas Ström: Hi, Before there were plans for magnetometer but unfortunatelly it was removed so it does not have a digital compass. Good GPS features with directions will however come to N900. Both FM radio and USB Host are downloadable via the beta-apps catalog. FM transmitter is included by default. There are many other gems. Nintendo Wii controller which you can connect to N900 and use for the sNES emulator, BT support for mouse and keyboard or USB then if you like. A lot of other fearures and yes several games as well. Like I answered before you will easily be able to see available applications either via Ovi Store or the application manager in the N900.

Originally Posted by twoboxen

I found the "usbcontrol" package in extras-devel.

Originally Posted by sarahn

FWIW I literally cut power between the n800 and a powered hub. A keyboard connected to the powered hub worked with the n800. My laptop found the keyboard but got confused and kept disconnecting / reconnecting the keyboard.

If the USB charging is the only issue, that may be a workaround. I would not be surprised if there were also USB driver issues.

If you try this remember to only cut power, not ground. There are pinouts / descriptions of the different wire colors elsewhere online.

Originally Posted by qole

I'm not sure if I really tested grounding the ID pin. I only have an N800, and I used the USB OTG (mini-B) host adapter from jolouis (which has the ID pin grounded) along with a mini-B to micro-B adapter. I assumed that would work to conclusively test the N900's hardware USB host capability.

But I later tried the same set-up with a friend's N810 and discovered that it didn't put his N810 into host mode, either.

By the way, transferring files via WiFi to/from the N900 has been pretty quick and painless. The networking speed on the N900 is much improved over the NITs. The most common method I've used for transferring files has been simply attaching the file to an e-mail. That is really quite a painless solution.