Two More Weeks

[Gert van Santen]

Op 18-2-2013 21:42, Peter Korsten schreef:
> Op 18-2-2013 17:52, Gert van Santen schreef:
>
>> Op 18-2-2013 17:39, Peter Korsten schreef:
>>> It would be cool if you could just have some controller, like
>>> Push or a DJ controller or something else, and hook it up to your
>>> smartphone. Not even a tablet, although that should be
>>> transparent. With the silly amount of processing power you get
>>> these days in a phone, you could simply take a controller and a
>>> USB cable, and slide the "processing engine" into your pocket.
>>
>> You can do that with a lot of phones these days, I guess. I
>> have a special controller for my iPhone. It's a very small
>> keyboard with 2 wheels and some buttons. I suppose you could
>> probably even gig with it ;-)
>
> Well, I meant more in a generic way. Right now, I could connect
> any USB slave device to my Galaxy S3, like a mouse (?), keyboard,
> or indeed a USB music keyboard or a DJ controller. But there's no
> software on Android worth mentioning, as far as I can tell. I
> don't even know if it would recognise a MIDI interface, or a USB
> audio device.
>
> The thing you're showing is kinda cool, but it looks a bit
> limited, and what happens if Apple decide to change their
> connector? Not that this would ever happen, of course...

Well, they did, of course. But that doesn't mean you have to stop 
using your old iPhone; you can just keep it in the mini keyboard :-)

Gert
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