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You can set the USB port in real host mode without using a special cable. Look at the internettablettalk wiki for information about it. 100mA is enough for most of the thing I use, e.g. USB-memories, MP3-players, a camera and so on.
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well, yes, you can configure the OS and the port but it's far simplier to add the adapter...it triggers an automagic flag in OS2008 that puts the port into OTG mode...and sure you could write a script to do the same thing.
For me the low powered port is of absolutely no use. I have no need of thumb drives, so far anyway, my MP3 player is not needed with the device either...it might be possible I would need to offload some images from a camera that uses a different card format to the potential 64GB of storage on the N800 and a USB cable would be great or a card reader via the USB port. But overall the port is under powered and of little use for me. While it indeed puts out a solid 5.09v as I was able to measure...the current is not sufficent for my EVDO card...remember voltage <> current. Then again I see no need to a firewire port on my NX9420 laptop...never owned a FW device and never will. Just is what it is...
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I have actually built something similar to get net access everywhere. I used a Huawei E220 HSDPA-modem, a USB-batteri and a USB-hub and I connected this to my N810 via the USB-port and it worked.
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NICE...I thought of a powered hub, but a few posters I read on another board had probs with frying their EVDO and HSDPA devices on some of the active hubs. So I decided the router option was best for me.
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Your solution with the Cradlepoint CTR-350 is nicer and I thinkt that the CTR-350 or the PHS300 would work with the Huaewi E220 which is a USM modem but the Cradlepoint routers is not especially cheap and seems to be hard to buy locally.
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Boy you aren't kidding about the cost. Though I got a very fair price on the CTR350 on eBay new w/shipping for $129. Not cheap but not out of reasonable range. Plus we can share the connection w/o fussing with ICS. And in a recent storm it actually gave me online access for a 2hr power outage and I could have gone longer with the extra battery packs. Gave us something to do...so we watched some movies on Netflix.
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One use I had not thought of before was that it was possible to use a bluetooth headset to listen to saved podcasts or saved talk radio programs. The lack of cables to the headset really was something that simplifies things and it is also easier to keep track of what you have listened to by moving the files to a special directory compared to a small MP3-player.
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oh, what a great idea! I really never thought of BT headphones for the NIT. I had read the audio from the BT headphones was often pretty marginal...are your decent enough? I mean I am no audiophile...in fact I am the anti-audiophile...hehehehe...I mostly listen to books or something relaxing while I read.
I do have some really nice Senheiser 900Mhz headphones I picked up last year that I use around the house and when working in the yard or just outside. But and I can use them with the N800 of course but only at home as they have a 'base station" that does the xmission. BT heandphones would solve that. Maybe I could even get a BT dongle for my MP3 player and use them a lot...hmmmmm...must resist searching for BT headphones...willl end up wanting a Blue Ant headset instead...it works with Skype...got to resisit shopping...ohoh...gotta go...
Oh, btw, just started playing with Streamtuner...it has built-in recording...so you can record the audio streams and play them whenever. Oh, I need those 32gb card to drop in price...and hehehehe...we N800 folks get LOTS more storage space., right now your max in 10gb unless someone came out with a 16gb miniSDHC ...so THERE...hehehehe...
