Widely regarded as the ‘easter egg’ of the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet is the ability to use, with special software, the microUSB port as a host port, enabling the user to plug a USB pen drive, full-sized keyboard, and other USB peripherals into the Tablet and use them as you would on a computer. Thoughtfix went into this recently over at TabletBlog.com, and Vaibhav Sharma at The Symbian Blog has begun wondering why this isn’t possible on the latest S60 devices that have mini- and microUSB ports built-in.
Personally, I could see this being really useful for USB pen drives, to increase the already massive amount of storage that our devices are capable of, but also for USB keyboards. I don’t think a USB mouse would work very well, but who knows. What other uses can you see for this?
Does anyone know if this is something that needs to be supported by the hardware, or is it as simple as writing a piece of software to do this?
