Camera Connection Kit

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Hmmm, seems like they've released a microUSB to USB adapter for supposedly transferring pictures.

Here's the link

http://www.motorola.com/consumers/XW...0081bbb00aRCRD

dumb question ... if it pulls the data trough usb .. what stops us just hooking up memsticks etc to it ?

It shouldn't affect anything at all. And even if it does, I can see the awesome xda community making it work with flash drives and such since moto didn't lock down the xoom

So then presumably Honeycomb has camera profiles, so it will recognize when I connect a camera and offer to import pics? If this is what it does, then this is a relief. I could just get a generic microUSB cable for my camera and skip buying this almost-certainly-overpriced dongle from Motorola.

Although apparently the Toshiba has a built-in full-size USB that wouldn't require this dongle or special cable. I'm going to continue to see how things shake out over the next month before I decide which to buy.

Some more info from an engineer who worked on the XOOM. (Link)

keith_4g:
"I am the engineer who designed the hardware for USB on the Xoom. I can confirm that the hardware is capable of supporting any USB 2.0 (or earlier) device using the host mode adapter cable. The software will, however, have limitations. The software that will be shipping on the Xoom will only have support for USB keyboards. I cannot guarantee this, but I have been told that support for camera connection will be available at some point. This should enable the Xoom to also detect some phones as digital cameras. As far as flash drives and external hard drives are concerned, I don't know whether or not they will be supported.

For those of you looking to buy the adapter, please do not buy a standard micro-USB to USB adapter. It is not going to enable host mode on the Xoom. The adapter sold by Motorola has the ID pin set to host mode, and the generic adapters you can buy online will not."

I'm confident that the great minds at XDA will have this exploited before Monday.

Originally Posted by arrtoodeetoo

I'm confident that the great minds at XDA will have this exploited before Monday.

I second this! This feature is very important for me, and I hope it gets squared away in the next few weeks!