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July 28th, 2010 09:00

Connector pinout on Streak

Will the pinout connection details  (for 30-pin proprietry connetcor) be made available for 3rd party hardware add-ons? We would like to connect our own hardware and communicate over a serial link, if possible.

  • mmp7

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    Posted July 28th, 2010 10:00

    no, at least for a while

  • quilkin

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    Posted July 30th, 2010 04:00

    Is your information reliable, have Dell actually told you this or is it a guess based on experience? Seems a shame since all pinout details are available for iPhone.

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    Posted July 30th, 2010 08:00

    follow along here:

    http://forum.pocketables.net/showthread.php?t=6222

    PDMI discussion starts on post #10

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    Posted July 30th, 2010 08:00

    A lot of people think it is PDMI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDMI)  The Slacker G2 radio has one.  Still waiting for a close up comparison of these two ports (Dell Streak and Slacker G2)

  • pappyfire

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    Posted July 30th, 2010 12:00

    I would not be surprized if someone is already in the process of reverse engineering Streak accessories and they will show up  on eBay with the cheap phone stuff.

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    Posted July 31st, 2010 04:00

    Thanks for that thread. Interesting.

    PDMI supports USB OTG which would be essential for the type of device I want to design, in the absence of more basic serial i/o. Does anyone know if the Streak supports USB OTG (effectively allowing it to become a USB host?)

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    Posted July 31st, 2010 05:00

    i too am interested in the USB host capability. I started creating a project with a PDA and elm device, to create a virtual dashboard for my car, and now would like to port that over to the Streak. Not sure about programming in Java though....