GTA04 and beyond

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at openmoko.org
Wed Jul 9 14:10:02 CEST 2008


On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:41:23 +0200 Raphaël Jacquot <sxpert at sxpert.org> babbled:

> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 20:51 +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> > On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:26:47 +0200 Raphaël Jacquot <sxpert at sxpert.org>
> > babbled:
> > 
> > > Paul Jimenez wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Stick with mini-USB; I hear China mandated it, and it's nice and 
> > > > standard anyway, so that's a good choice.  Plus your customers have
> > > > some investment in chargers & cables.  Or go micro-USB - half the
> > > > height, otherwise fairly similar.  And still standardish.  Maybe add
> > > > another port so there's one dedicated host and one dedicated gadget
> > > > port.
> > > 
> > > mini usb is perfect, keep it.
> > > micro is rather hard to find...
> > 
> > the problem is mini usb is now "legacy" according to the usb org. all new
> > devices are to use micro-usb, so like it or not - micro-usb is coming. it's
> > the "new" mini-usb.
> 
> ah. good to know then ;)
> is it designed to be ambivalent (aka host / device at the same time ?)

that i believe is the "usb on the go" (or was it "usb 2 go") spec.

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Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster at openmoko.org>



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