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I listen to a lot of music on my phone and tablet. I prefer to listen to it through my FiiO E17 and with recent updates to Android I have been able to do so on my phone and tablet, which is an extremely nice feature. I hope it is supported in Sailfish OS! There is an issue with doing this, however, because it takes the only USB port on my device and that USB port is also used to charge the battery on both devices. This means my device won't charge and that doesn't end up very well when I'm listening in my car and running Waze at the same time (GPS + Music - Charging = Dead Soon).

There are USB splitters and hubs, etc., of course, but they still don't allow the phone to charge. Unfortunately the (current, "fixed" in USB 3.1) USB standard does not support high speed (i.e. sound streaming) and high-power modes at the same time. On a laptop, desktop, etc. this wouldn't be a problem because it has a separate charging port, but phones and tablets (so far) have not had this feature.

So my request is to get a second micro-USB port added to the Jolla tablet. I would hazard a guess that it would be significantly easier to implement an "everything" port and a "data-only" port. i.e. You would have one port that functions as it does now (charging and syncing to the computer, using USB OTG, etc.) and one that could only be used for data that would not be hooked up to the battery charging IC. I haven't looked into the battery charging IC's used by most manufacturer's these days, though, so maybe they support multiple inputs.

So yeah, second USB port on the tablet.

I listen to a lot of music on my phone and tablet. I prefer to listen to it through my FiiO E17 and with recent updates to Android I have been able to do so on my phone and tablet, which is an extremely nice feature. I hope it is supported in Sailfish OS! There is an issue with doing this, however, because it takes the only USB port on my device and that USB port is also used to charge the battery on both devices. This means my device won't charge and that doesn't end up very well when I'm listening in my car and running Waze at the same time (GPS + Music - Charging = Dead Soon).

There are USB splitters and hubs, etc., of course, but they still don't allow the phone to charge. Unfortunately the (current, "fixed" in USB 3.1) USB standard does not support high speed (i.e. sound streaming) and high-power modes at the same time. On a laptop, desktop, etc. this wouldn't be a problem because it has a separate charging port, but phones and tablets (so far) have not had this feature.

So my request is to get a second micro-USB port added to the Jolla tablet. I would hazard a guess that it would be significantly easier to implement an "everything" port and a "data-only" port. i.e. You would have one port that functions as it does now (charging and syncing to the computer, using USB OTG, etc.) and one that could only be used for data that would not be hooked up to the battery charging IC. I haven't looked into the battery charging IC's used by most manufacturer's these days, though, so maybe they support multiple inputs.

So yeah, second USB port on the tablet.

I listen to a lot of music on my phone and tablet. I prefer to listen to it through my FiiO E17 and with recent updates to Android I have been able to do so on my phone and tablet, which is an extremely nice feature. I hope it is supported in Sailfish OS! There is an issue with doing this, however, because it takes the only USB port on my device and that USB port is also used to charge the battery on both devices. This means my device won't charge and that doesn't end up very well when I'm listening in my car and running Waze at the same time (GPS + Music - Charging = Dead Soon).

There are USB splitters and hubs, etc., of course, but they still don't allow the phone to charge. Unfortunately the (current, "fixed" in USB 3.1) USB standard does not support high speed (i.e. sound streaming) and high-power modes at the same time. On a laptop, desktop, etc. this wouldn't be a problem because it has a separate charging port, but phones and tablets (so far) have not had this feature.

So my request is to get a second micro-USB port added to the Jolla tablet. I would hazard a guess that it would be significantly easier to implement an "everything" port and a "data-only" port. i.e. You would have one port that functions as it does now (charging and syncing to the computer, using USB OTG, etc.) and one that could only be used for data that would not be hooked up to the battery charging IC. I haven't looked into the battery charging IC's used by most manufacturer's these days, though, so maybe they support multiple inputs.

So yeah, second USB port on the tablet.

I listen to a lot of music on my phone and tablet. I prefer to listen to it through my FiiO E17 and with recent updates to Android I have been able to do so on my phone and tablet, which is an extremely nice feature. I hope it is supported in Sailfish OS! There is an issue with doing this, however, because it takes the only USB port on my device and that USB port is also used to charge the battery on both devices. This means my device won't charge and that doesn't end up very well when I'm listening in my car and running Waze at the same time (GPS + Music - Charging = Dead Soon).

There are USB splitters and hubs, etc., of course, but they still don't allow the phone to charge. Unfortunately the (current, "fixed" in USB 3.1) USB standard does not support high speed (i.e. sound streaming) and high-power modes at the same time. On a laptop, desktop, etc. this wouldn't be a problem because it has a separate charging port, but phones and tablets (so far) have not had this feature.

So my request is to get a second micro-USB port added to the Jolla tablet. I would hazard a guess that it would be significantly easier to implement an "everything" port and a "data-only" port. i.e. You would have one port that functions as it does now (charging and syncing to the computer, using USB OTG, etc.) and one that could only be used for data that would not be hooked up to the battery charging IC. I haven't looked into the battery charging IC's used by most manufacturer's these days, though, so maybe they support multiple inputs.

So yeah, second USB port on the tablet.