USB Host mode on Gingerbread?

[crackness]

Did anyone continue or further develop Host mode for the Nexus? After seeing this:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...-canon-eos-from-your-android-phone-or-tablet/

I want it, incredibly bad. I haven't been able to find anything past that one guy that did it with 2.2 over a year ago, why does it seem that development on this completely ceased? I guess there really was only a specialized group that would really ever use it, but that's one super innovative use that has me extremely interested.

I'm currently on CM7 (and love it), but this is so freaking cool to me I'm actually semi-considering downgrading... please don't make me downgrade, and instead tell me that USB Host mode development on the Nexus one has made it to gingerbread...

 

[shaggy-h]

I was about to post the same question! I'll be following this thread with interest.

Can someone please explain the limitation that prevents the N1 working as-is with USB host anyway? My (admittedly very vague) understanding is that the N1 hardware isn't able to supply the necessary power to the external device, hence USB Host support is disabled in the kernel for the N1 at compile time. Am I close?

 

[crackness]

Well now that it's been moved out of the development sub-forum I'm not sure if i'll get any developers to chime in... but for the first time in almost a year and a half that I've had my Nexus One, I actually want a new phone I wonder if it'll work with tablets seeing as how some of them have host mode enabled in honeycomb...

 

[Jack_R1]

AFAIK, you'll be getting OTG capabilities in Ice Cream Sandwich.