Let's face it. The telephones of today are true computers squezed into a very small place. Not so expensive phones (200 Euros) already have ARM 11, 369 MHz CPU and 256 MB of RAM+ROM. Just about 8 years ago, many of us had computers with CPU's clocked at 400-500 MHz, with 128-256 MB of RAM. Those computers had operating systems able to handle a lot of hardware peripherals.
So I really expect the modern phones to allow users to connect peripherals to them. And it can't be hard, since PDA's already allow connecting WiFi and other types of cards by SDIO or CFIO, since lots of years ago. My point is: the Android platform should allow programmers to write drivers for all kind of peripherals, and also it should offer them to do it trough the already existing USB host feature (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_On-The-Go) I really wish my phone to allow me to connect to it a standard USB keyboard, an USB mouse, an USB ethernet adapter (which would turn my phone into a great basic network testing device), a scanner, a printer, a pen drive, an external hard drive, a foto camera and other devices. The hardware has the power to do that, the USB host specification exists, now all that we need is the operating system of the phones to support this. So my question is of course: Will Android allow this things to happen? I am a simple computer / phone user so I dont know the technical details about the platform and that's why I ask By the way, I would like to see to the future phones even a VGA-out option, so when I go home I conect the keyboard, mouse and monitor to the phone and do the work confortably just like working at a regular computer. thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
