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		JonnieCache on April 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meet the IOIO - USB breakout board for android w/4... Unfortunately not. Android devices are not yet capable of acting reliably as USB hosts. This means you cannot connect peripheral devices to them. The IOIO works by acting as a USB host itself.

ck2 on April 8, 2011 [–]

I've seen android prototype devices by vendors for demos and they have ethernet ports. But I guess that's not a usb interface either, it's native.

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