Clie to plug into USB Upgrade

[Jun]

... future Clie handhelds will come equipped with Philips Semiconductor's USB On-the-Go chip.

USB On-the-Go, which is an offshoot of the Universal Serial Bus 2.0 specification, lets gadgets such as cell phones link and exchange data directly with other peripherals. While existing wireless data transfer modes such as Bluetooth promise similar benefits, these standards are not omnipresent or backward-compatible. USB slots, on the other hand, are commonly found in existing devices such as printers and digital-audio players.

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That news again made me think to wait for some more months of upgrading my NX70V! I am looking at 3 to 4 months from now.

[msgate]

Think about this. Imagine connecting an external (and portable) USB 2.0 Hard Drive into Clie (embedded with USB On-the-Go chip) to play lots of videos! Correct me if I am mistaken on this assumption.

Whoa!

[n2ifp]

Yes, that would really rock!

[Tek Phreak]

imagine watching them for half an hour! cause that's all the battery would last unless you watched it plugged, and i'll be darned if i ever use my clie plugged in. I'll use my laptop for portable plugging, not my clie. Unless they HIGHLY increase batterylife, i see this new USB chip as a battery hog and sort of not worth the trouble.

Enjoy.
-Tek

[Trp]

Unless the hard drive has a battery :)

[Drexer]

I would say a safe way to monitor batter life would be an AC power addator on the CF/internal USB to go system. This way you could get your power from there. I realy dont think it will be ment for HD but for camera's and other things like this thay have there own power supplie.

Just my 2 cents

[postingfromNX]

any USB 2.0 devices will WORK. How .'bout pluggingin a multiple USB 2.0 port? Multiple hard drives you see? Of course, the new clie will use the new intel pxa255 - battery efficient- processor, la?

Hello incoming T form factor clie, been waiting, waiting for months now.

[Funkazoid]

...Sounds great to me!! Although you could probably guess that Sony would release their own hard drive of which the drivers would only work with 'their' drive? And of course any other hard drive wouldn't work due to non existent drivers!


Failing that just go out and buy one of those Archaos Multimedia jukebox things - 20Gb and it will play audio and video and also I believe the newer ones will record video - and the battery life seems to be OK