USB OTG support for lumia series...

There are so many more connectivity options now, OTG seems sort of a legacy capability. What are you really going to hook up? Thumb drive to backup photos, files? You have OneDrive for that. Sharing photos, files, BT, NFC. Surely you aren't going to use a leyboard lr mouse. Until recently, there wasn't even a file manager in WP, so accessing files on a connected drive would have been problematic. Yea, other OSs support it, but not all devices built on those OSs do.Both hardware and software is requires to provide the USB host capability. I would guess there is a chance fiture WPs might support it, but I wouldn't hold my breath that current ones would get it. rr

You are the man, nokiyes

you said what i wish to say.

Yes, I'd like to connect my Lumia to TV , so I want to connect keyboard (or gamepad or mouse). Besides, I'd like to connect External Sound Amplifier etc. There are a lot of things to connect!

I am well aware that this thread is old, but in case anyone (like me) googled 'Windows phone otg' and found this thread, I'll save you the hassle of going through Microsoft's suggestion forum. This is the current status on this question:

In Windows 10, Microsoft is introducing support for USB Dual Role. USB Dual Role refers to the ability of a system to behave as a USB Device or a USB Host. This is a really exciting feature as it adds the ability to use your USB devices with your Mobile phone for the first time ever in Windows!

Please note, this feature will only be available on new Windows 10 devices that support USB Dual Role. This is because of the hardware changes required for the USB port to support device enumeration. While there are devices in the market today that have USB Dual Role capable controllers, the platforms were not designed to support USB Dual Role. New hardware may advertise that they are Dual Role capable.

Meaning it will be supported, but only in new Windows 10 phones. That should rule out any chances of ever getting USB OTG support on our current Lumia phones...

To read the whole blog post where I found this info, click here.

Good find. Thanks for posting the link. I'm glad they are supporting it, as it is one of those things that others have that just detracted from the platform being absent. Hopefully the OEMs, one of which is MS, will include the hardware  required.