12-13-2003, 12:58 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,177
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Add USB Host Ports to Your Pocket PC
Twin Paradox and Cypress Semiconductor have announced a Compact Flash card which adds two independent USB hosts to a Pocket PC. I recently posted about a product in the same category, albeit it used serial communication. It's easy to forget that what makes all these Pocket PC peripherals possible is an underlying operating system that has had all the nescessary hooks integrated for a long, long time. Beauty of standards! Check out Jenneth's comments in her Compact Flash USB host adapter for Windows Mobile 2003 article.
"Features
� Adds two independent USB Host ports to your Pocket PC
� Supports standard-A USB Host connectors
� Dongle-less Type I CompactFlash Card design
� Pocket PC supplies USB low power to each Host port (5v @ 100ma)
� Provides full USB Host Port power to each port with AC adapter (5v @ 500ma)
� Internal Power Auto-Switch (Switches CF Card and USB Host power from Pocket PC power to AC adapter power automatically.)
Includes
� SolarExpress� PDA CF Card
� USB Host extension cable
� Installation Guide
� CD-ROM with CF USB Host Card driver
� AC adapter (optional use)
Specifications
� Compliant with USB 1.1 specifications (audio microphone, speakers and video webcams supported on future driver release)
� 2 USB Host port connectors on CF Card
� 5 Volt DC Power Jack for full USB Host power support
� 12 Mbps maximum transfer rate
� Windows Mobile 2003 Plug n Play
� Runs off Pocket PC power
System Requirements
� Windows Mobile 2003 (Pocket PC 2003)
� Pocket PC with 16 bit CompactFlash slot
� ActiveSync 3.7 or higher"
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12-13-2003, 03:27 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 35
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so with this would i be able to hook up a HD MP3 player, and play say movies that were stored on the HD?
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12-13-2003, 03:43 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 209
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Toshiba e750 user have been able to do this for while with the small expansion attached to the botton (I would not like cables tangling on the top of the PPC). This also offers a VGA output. Mine works well with a slim hd (in the car) w/deje-anypack driver.
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12-13-2003, 03:51 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 54
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As a long-time user of a Toshiba E740, (now a E755), it has been frustrating trying to use the USB host capabilities. Sure, Deje provided mass storage and mouse drivers, but I still have no drivers for my Sanyo 4900 phone so I can use the unlimited Sprint PCS Vision plan. I can do it from my laptop, but no drivers exist for the PDA. BTW, with the Toshiba you don't even need the expansion pack (although you do gain a VGA port with it), you just need their USB Host adapter cable.
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12-13-2003, 04:18 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 495
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worthless without drivers...
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12-13-2003, 05:13 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 315
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what cortex said. even many usb mp3 devices req a driver. and even global drivers for things like mass storage may not be included with this thing.
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12-13-2003, 05:26 PM
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Editorial Contributor
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 5,411
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Not sure where Jenneth got the ~$90 price, but if that is right, maybe Ratoc will quit wanting $150 for theirs. Even with it just being a single port, I sort of like the Ratoc design better. Little smaller to carry around though it does lead to easier breakage. Wish my modem and NIC CF cards had a dongle, instead of a huge box just to hold the connector. Of course that is just me.
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12-13-2003, 05:33 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 2
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Have they made a SD version yet? Since I have rderd a X3i and I know that it only has SD....
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12-13-2003, 05:57 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 56
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by Cortex
worthless without drivers...
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This is what I am not clear on....
Without drivers for the hardware you want to use, what is the point?
What type of drivers are available now?
--=Rick=--
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12-13-2003, 06:19 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 128
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hardware has to come before software ...
its like the chicken and the egg
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