The new OTG (On-The-Go) supplement to release Version 2.0 of the USB standard allows devices to exchange data without an intermediate host. OTG establishes a new USB product category—dual-role devices ...

USB On-the-go or USB OTG is a standard protocol that allows devices to read data from a USB device without the need of connecting them to a PC. The device uses the OTG cable to turn itself into a USB ...

With an inexpensive USB OTG adapter, you can connect things like keyboards, USB hard drives, and even gaming controllers to your Android phone or tablet. Sharon Profis Former Vice President of Content ...

We keep everything on our phones these days. While most of us do back up to the cloud, whether it be iCloud, Google, One Drive, or another service, there are times you may want to offload files from ...

The USB specification introduced a simple and inexpensive infrastructure for easily connecting multiple external peripherals to a PC. That was several years ago; today, more than 500 million ...

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard defines a host/peripheral relationship: the PC is the host, and devices that plug into it are always peripherals. In recent years, however, technology users ...

Modern smart devices can perform all sort of things and we’ve reached a time where the term smart might actually apply, that is at least until we get to the issue of connectivity. And this is where ...

DESIGN VIEW is the summary of the complete DESIGN SOLUTION contributed article, which begins on Page 2. Until very recently, no common interface existed between handheld devices and PC peripherals.

Android phones have always stood out for their flexibility and customization, especially when compared to iPhones. You can always install a wide range of third-party ...

Few things rival the usability and speed of a full-sized keyboard for text input. For decades, though, keyboards were mostly ...

Many people won’t buy a Nexus device because of there not being an SD card slot. Well on previous models we had a feature called USB OTG and OTG stands for On The Go. Where you could plug in USB ...