sriram, >i wanted to know if it is possible to connect an external device such as a >camera to a Palm PDA and fetch data from the camera?
External devices such as a camera are (nearly always) a USB client device, so must attach to a USB host device such as a PC. Current Palm OS based devices are also client mode so cannot talk directly to another client such as a camera. Two options: 1) Remove card from camera and insert in palm to view pics 2) Attach both devices to an intermediary device operating as a USB host There is a supplement of USB being developed called USB On-The-Go which addresses the desire to have a device work in either host or client mode depending on what it is connected to at the time. See http://www.usb.org/developers/onthego/ for details. Here is one sample of how you can do it: http://www.usbgear.com/USB-OTG.html Doug -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
