I'm very new here and so to my N-Gage. Just out of my curiousity, I was wondering if an N-Gage would be able to recognize a thumbdrive (handy drive) via the DKE-2 cable to a thumbdrive's USB extension cable?
As far as I know, thumbdrives are powered by the USB connection from the PC. Do you think N-Gage will be able to power it up and not damaging to both of these devices?
I've also got a MSI MegaStick 128MB thumbdrive+mp3 player. It is powered by a AA baterry.
WOAH... i wouldn't recommend it coz firstly when u plug in a thumbdrive, windows thankfully automatically detects a suitable driver and installs it. Doubt an N-Gage has the driver nor the plug-and-play capability to recognize a thumbdrive. Next is of course the worry of power...
Sounds like you got all the kit to test... No harm to try, Did it work?
MMC wrote:Sounds like you got all the kit to test... No harm to try, Did it work?
Wouldn't dare yet as I thought of what Dr@n|xX said, might not load and might damage both the devices. We'll just wait for what others might say.
I haven't tried it, but I'm sure it won't work. The USB support in the N-Gage is USB slave only, and needs a PC or USB hub to power it, and in addition the USB functionality is to expose the MMC as USB mass storage class device. Two USB mass storage devices can't talk directly to each other (you'd have to have a third device that knows how to read from one and write to the other).
I think it is possible. Maybe not right now but they are making a camera and a cardreader for the N-gage (http://www.ngagecamera.cjb.net/ ). If the N-gage could only act as a slave-device these devices wouldn't work. Maybe they have a program which can use a device on the usb-port of the N-gage. And there is not much difference between a thumbdrive and a cardreader witch MMC card on the usb-port , right?
Thanks people for the output but I'm sure if Symbian OS, Nokia & thumb drive makers would co-operate to create such functions, it would be possible. Yesterday, I had a crazy thought like "I wonder Kingston (my thumb drive make) would have a driver for Symbian OS or at least Series60 fones". Heh! guess not and I wouldn't be bothered about Symbian's official site for drivers.
I checked the website, and it did not seem very, errrr.... serious? I mean, they had not even got the spelling right. I would be careful. nevertheless, the ideas are really good, i would probably get the camera if AAN checked everything is allright, or well, if the proved trustworthy somehow :S I'm surprised Nokia has not released a camera for n-gage yet, though.