Wintersdark
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This is new to me, but I've read up on it. My understanding is that it functions as a normal USB 2.0 host port, but can also be used to connect the device to a PC's USB port as a slave device itself.
When connected in this manner, the Pandora can charge it's own battery (albeit slowly compared to an AC adapter). Are drivers required/provided? What, if any, other functionality is available? Read/write access to the NAND flash as a mass storage device? Access to SD cards?
It'd be very, very awesome to be able to plug it into a random PC and access the contents of the SD cards, allowing easy transfer of files to, say, a friends PC.
* As a side note, I firmly believe that the industry ought to more fully adopt SD cards (in their various flavours) as a replacement for portable media for PC's. Think floppy disks, but usable. CD's and DVD's are garbage - a hassle to write to, limited (if any) rewritability, size and fragility issues... Every PC should have a SD card reader.
When connected in this manner, the Pandora can charge it's own battery (albeit slowly compared to an AC adapter). Are drivers required/provided? What, if any, other functionality is available? Read/write access to the NAND flash as a mass storage device? Access to SD cards?
It'd be very, very awesome to be able to plug it into a random PC and access the contents of the SD cards, allowing easy transfer of files to, say, a friends PC.
* As a side note, I firmly believe that the industry ought to more fully adopt SD cards (in their various flavours) as a replacement for portable media for PC's. Think floppy disks, but usable. CD's and DVD's are garbage - a hassle to write to, limited (if any) rewritability, size and fragility issues... Every PC should have a SD card reader.