Nokia N810

[brecklundin]

Originally Posted by tompe

I have realized that my current setup is just for emergencies since it is a bit annoying to use the device with the USB cable attached and the setup to get it to work is not simple. A Craddlepoint device have become more tempting... How does it know how to login? Is this configurable so you in the worst case can write your own ATDT commands?

Yeah, that was one of the real reasons I decided to just bite-the-bullet and go all-in on router, battery pack and an iGo Stowaway BT Keyboard. When I got to thinking about hanging the EVDO modem off the side of the tablet, suddenly the it loses it's "pocketibility" as I don't want to break the modem. And if I need to attach the thing every time I want to take it out and get online...ummm, no...hehehehe...

I did think seriously about the Cradlepoint PHS300, I really did because it's an even more compact solution. But when I read people are not getting more then a few hours use from a single charge I decided that the ability to use the CTR350 as a backup router for my home network in the case we lose power (btw, we work from home and all both on laptops for exactly that reason so why shouldn't the router be in the mix.) Sure the CTR350 means an external power source but oh, well, it's tiny and still very portable.

[brecklundin]

Originally Posted by tompe

Isn't there a difference with power available in the USB port? With the N810 and a female-female USB converter I can connect a lot of things to it such as USB memory and my IXUS 850IS and use gphoto2 to download the images to the N810. I have also managed to get an HSDPA USB modem to work with it by using an external battery.

I wanted to follow up on this. I was wrong about the ports being the same. Actually they are different. One is a mini-USB and the other a micro-USB. I forget which is which...but they are physically different. Who knows why?

Anyway, good news was I did get my Franklin CDU680 to fire up today via the N800's USB port using the drivers on the device and the USB OTG adapter. Now all it did was look for a network, probably really just went through POST and then never found anything because something is not yet setup correctly on my N800.

I was able to measure the voltage of the port accurately using the special converter-OTG adapter and get a steady 5.09v which is plenty to power the modem. Still as I said above, I just wanna see it work but I will always connect via the router. Besides the router adds that extra layer of protection. Even though it's Linux and should be secure out of the box so to speak, and since I am not even close to an expert at all with Linux, there could be security holes you could drive a truck through.

One thing a day is all I am trying to figure out...keeps me busy at least.

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by brecklundin

I wanted to follow up on this. I was wrong about the ports being the same. Actually they are different. One is a mini-USB and the other a micro-USB. I forget which is which...but they are physically different. Who knows why?

I have two USB ports on my Archos 705. One is mini-B, the other is mini-A. They are different because they do two different things. The mini-B is the client port. The mini-A is the host port.

There is a good chance that yours were made different for the same reason.

[tompe]

The N810 has a micro USB port and i think the only reason is that there was no space for a mini USB. It can work as a host port but then ypu have to have a special cable or use a female-female USB adapter.