USB OTG support for lumia series...

The fact that USB OTG is desirable is already understood by MS. The are supporting it in newer devices, specifically those with USB-C connectors. They cannot add it to existing devices, as the hardware does not support it.

Does lumia series support usb on the go?

If not are there any chances in d future?

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

You have posted in the most recent thread about USB-OTG, which is good, because you searched. USB drivers are software and can be ‘ported’ of course. However for Windows Phone, those driver (and the whole USB host stack) had to be re-written from ground-up. I think, that was meant and it was just a wording issue. Furthermore, USB-OTG does require hardware. We have to wait for the official ‘Lumia Windows 10’ firmware, whether the Lumia 1020 came with that hardware. Although Nokia had a long tradition when it comes to USB-OTG – started in 2007 – and even offered USB-OTG in Nokia Series 40 (feature phones) like the Nokia 6303i classic, I have not so much hope this was included with the Lumia 1020. Anyway, that is just a unqualified stomach feeling. Currently, you have to go for the Lumia 950 series to get USB-OTG.

By the way, Microsoft does not leverage Microsoft Answers as feedback channel. Why ever. Therefore, your comments drown in the Internet swarm. Furthermore, thanks to the openness of the Internet, everyone is able to post here, even if uneducated/unqualified in Computer Science. This is good because we do get interesting approaches and solution this way, sometimes. However in Microsoft Answers no framework exists to value posts (negatively). Consequently, some users – although here for several years – do not learn about their post quality in general. They see only their positive posts. Furthermore, because Microsoft does not add much official answers here, and because we do not see many ‘employees’ who are not outsourced actually, because of that, some users try to answer everything. Others try to be conciliatory and are not aware they do the opposite with their wording, damaging the brand even more. Long story short: Please, please, don’t be offended by false, silly, or useless statements too much.

..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.

..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$ ****.