Y-cable and USB-OTG: mutually exclusive

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mickey at openmoko.org
Tue Apr 29 15:18:57 CEST 2008


On Tuesday 29 April 2008 15:00:25 Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> | On Tuesday 29 April 2008 12:14:32 Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
> | [...]
> |
> |> So we're back again to my lovely little coax ;-) Much smaller than 2nd
> |> micro-USB, much simpler, many many compliant chargers out there.
> |
> | That's irony, right? It's oh-so-good that after years of an increasing
>
> amount
>
> | of non-compatible wall warts, manufacturers finally stopped doing
>
> that. You
>
> | don't really want to go back, do you?
>
> In fact we ship a "non-compatible wall wart" :-)  Just happens to
> terminate in mini USB, but it ain't complaint.

Yes, but the point being is we _can_ still charge the Neo with any USB host or 
dumb USB charger.

:M:




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