Y-cable and USB-OTG: mutually exclusive

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Tue Apr 29 15:22:30 CEST 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| Hello.
|
| On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 15:12, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
|> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:57, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
|>> 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?
|> I could not have said it better.
|>
|> Carrying around so many different chargers just because every device
|> means it needs a special one is stupid. At the moment I'm able to
|> charge 6 different mobile phones, a BT GPS mouse and a BT headset with
|> one USB charger.
|
| Some more notes from a quick local discussion:
|
| o Charging with USB means you can use a *standard* USB cable to charge
|   it from a computer. How often did you forgot your charger at home
|   when traveling?
|
| o It also means you have *one* cable for both, power and data. We
|   should simplify stuff, right? ;)

Hey I like USB power in, so much so we spnt the morning trying to figure
out how to have two of them.  Preaching to the converted :-)

- -Andy
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