Micro USB to USB Female Host OTG Cable for Android

Before laptops, there was the OTG cable: a short lead with a 5-pin Micro-USB male on one end and a USB Type A female on the other, turning an Android phone into a USB host. Plug in a flash drive and the file manager grows a USB storage entry; plug in a mouse or keyboard and productivity improves at the office or at home; plug in a card reader and the phone ingests camera cards directly. The adapter enhances the capabilities of the phone, providing user-friendly removable data storage and multimedia sharing.

The classic routine is PC-free backup: videos and photos from a Galaxy S II-class phone onto an external memory stick without a computer in sight. The compatibility list runs deep in the Samsung era — Captivate Glide SGH-i927, Epic 4G Touch SPH-D710, Galaxy Nexus GSM i9250, Galaxy Note N7000, Galaxy S II GT-i9100 and CDMA SCH-R760 among them — and the same shape works on any Micro-USB device with host-mode support.

Key features

• Micro-USB 5-pin male to USB Type A female
• OTG host mode for Android phones and tablets
• USB flash drives and memory card readers supported
• Keyboard and mouse input for productivity
• PC-free photo and video backup

Specifications

An honest note on phones: OTG is a firmware feature — the device must support host mode, and power-hungry sticks can outdraw a phone’s output. Standard-capacity drives and readers are the dependable pairing; the wide-plug USB 3.0 generation needs the Micro USB 3.0 OTG version instead.

Typical applications

• Field backup from phones to memory sticks
• Mouse and keyboard control of media-box phones
• Reading camera cards without a laptop

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