Treo 800w: USB host port works!

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Sure, the Treo 800w was a blip on the Windows Mobile radar and has now even disappeared from Sprint's Spider web site. But 8 months afterward its release, i cool feature has now been discovered: the 800w can act every bit a USB host.

And then what does that all mean? In short, with a cheap $eight adapter cablevision (similar those establish hither on eBay) you tin connect up all sorts of USB devices that don't require separate drivers to run. Such devices include external hard disk drives, USB flash drives, USB headphones/mics, and for bnsguy, a USB ultrasound probe!

What makes this unique is that at the moment, very few WM devices can act as a USB host (if y'all happen to know any, drop usa a line) and to be honest, it is a actually absurd feature that we would like to see on future devices.

Later the spring, we'll mail service a few shots of what this setup looks similar on the 800w and some various USB devices that can run on information technology!

Basically how this works is very simple: plug in your USB device to the special USB host cablevision, plug into 800w and and so plough on. That's information technology, really. So long as it doesn't crave external drivers and does not draw also much ability, information technology should work. And then some digital cameras with USB modes should work (although my Nikon D90 lacks that characteristic, compassion) besides as various other USB gadgets. Things similar HDD and thumb drives just show up as "Hard Deejay" under Resco Explorer and act only like storage cards.

First upwards is a biggy: the Western Digital My Book 1TB external HDD.

This large guy requires an external ability supply to evidently ability the HDD and when plugged in it will actually bear witness upwardly on the 800w and be fully accessible. One note: if you lot try to utilize the "properties" selection say in Resco Explorer, it will crash and sometimes it will have a few seconds to read a whole directory. Simply c'mon ... one TB of data!

Adjacent is the nearly convenient:USB thumb drives

What is nicer than beingness able to take your thumb bulldoze, connect up to your phone and just transfer or access files on-the-go? With quick read times and the ability to shuffle files betwixt your microSD card and the thumb drive, you can easily add together GBs of storage to your device.

Finally, how nearly a USB stereo gaming headset with microphone?

This one even nosotros were surprised about. Turns you you can plug this headset in and have all your audio routed through the stereo headset and even use the on board microphone. Uses? How virtually those long Skype calls. Seems to work quite well over that sevice.

Things nosotros're working on to test: USB to 3.5mm stereo headset adapters. Ironically, ane of the Achilles heels of the 800w is a astringent lack of 3rd political party headphone adapters. One solution which might work is to use one of these adapters, which converts sound output to 3.5mm as well equally enhances the sound.

We'll proceed you posted on that i.

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