USB OTG (On-the-go)

Oh yes! Mobile phones have taken another major step forward in trying to edge out notebooks. It has been argued that smartphones can completely replace notebooks but in the real sense that is not entirely true. An evidence of this is when you seamlessly connect your smart phone to your PC in order to transfer media files or update your phone or simply back up your files. It was also argued that smartphones are more mobile than laptops but mini netbooks had the last laugh (and then tablets came along). But USB on the Go has greatly improved smart phones.
So with USB on the Go one can connect a flash disk to a phone and access the contents of the flash disk on the phone just the way it would be done on a computer. This makes it easier to transfer media files between phones and also between phones and computers without the need of annoying data cables. With USB on the go you can for example play videos saved on a flash disk and you even have the option of copying the video files to the phone. Cool indeed. But what really amazes me is that you can connect your portable hard drive and therefore memory will never be an issue.
So far Nokia is leading in this venture and this will go a long way to help them recover from their slump. Nokia N8, Nokia C7, Nokia C6-01 and Nokia E7 support this feature. Nokia C7, Nokia C6-01 and Nokia E7 were announced last week during the Nokia Mobile World Congress in London and will be released by the end of the year. And Nokia even went a step further. They have new specially designed headsets that act as DVB-H receivers and they work on Nokia phones with USB on the go. So basically that’s the phones I have named above. In case you still tryna swallow and digest that DVB-H thingy I have mentioned above then you are in luck. Well, it’s just what we refer to as DSTV mobile. And if you think that phone screen is too small for watching Arsene Wenger and Alex Ferguson lash out at referees then you can just connect the handset to a television but that’s a story for another day.
USB on the go will definitely change the way we view phones and at the moment we can’t possibly know what exactly will be achieved but I have a good feeling about this.