USB OTG support for lumia series...

And again this feature has been on other mobiles for years!

And again this feature has been on other mobiles for years!

and windows phone has had other features for years before iOS and android got them. does that make them inferior? no. there are technical reasons for the way things are right now, and that was defined YEARS ago. you can't magically undo a hardware specification. things will change from W10 onwards, and there's no point in whining about it on WP8 - yes, everyone knows it's not there.

With Windows 10 mobile to be released in a week, has anybody got USB OTG working on their devices running technical preview? Windows 10 mobile certainly supports OTG because it has to support Continum. So if any of the old lumias do not support OTG with Win 10 mobile, then it's a hardware issue.

..Really?

Features like usb can't be ported to a windows OS?

Sounds like a very lame fanboy response to a reasonable request.

Lets see, a USB driver would take up how much space and how many lines of code?

Windows phone was the greatest creation NEVER made.

It had all the potential to wipe out the competition but they decided to lock everything and cripple their own product and now they're paying the price.

With the specs of most phones nowadays they could easily be running an actual OS complete with windows executables, you could completely customise your phone, and use it as a PC, but instead they lock it down so bad, you can't even use a thirdparty app to do anything without WP security stepping in and knocking you back for wearing the wrong shoes.

I have a lumia 1020 which I like for the simple fact it had outlook, and since updating to WP10 where they've bugged the **** out of it and tried to combine the accounts, I'm moving to android for sure on the next phone.

Even with root access there's not enough to keep me on M$ ****.

..Really?

Features like usb can't be ported to a windows OS?

Sounds like a very lame fanboy response to a reasonable request.

Lets see, a USB driver would take up how much space and how many lines of code?

Really, going back to a two year old post. The simple reality is OTG does require additional capability in the hardware. If a device supports USB client capability, as phones do, it is not a given that they also support host capability which is what is necessary for OTG. To add the option likely doesn't cost a lot, but if you are manufacturing and selling in volume, a few cents adds up. So someone made the decision, most likely in the light of cloud storage and the lack of a user accessible file system, that connecting an external drive (USB or otherwise) to a Windows Phone was not going to be a necessary trait, and the hardware capability was left out. Good decision or not, the devices don't have the physical capability, no matter how small the drivers are.