[maemo-developers] AW: AW: [maemo-developers] external usb devices really necessary?

[From: Karoliina Salminen]

ext kimmo.virtanen wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Steffen Vogel wrote:
>
> About the external usb devices , i am working in project where we are 
> studying for using mobile devices in buildingautomation. Mostly with 
> pocket pc and symbian phones, but first impression about when we were 
> reading about N770, was something like 'cool, little neat device which 
> we can physically mount to automation devices and then connect via usb 
> to device and use it as UI' , second though was to use wlan / 
> bluetooth to forward connection to ethernet.. in style: look no other 
> wires than power :)

If you customize your own rootfs, you can do anything you want with it 
and put anything you want
in it :).

>
> Yeah... it is definetly great option to have possibility to connect 
> external usb devices to it. :)

Yes indeed, many love it. However, please see the limitation mentioned 
in the FAQ - 770 does
not supply power to the USB cord.

Best Regards,
Karoliina