OTG on Samsung Galaxy S II on AT&T?

My current phone, an iPhone 3Gs, is fading - low battery life, and too slow since the iOS5 upgrade. As my two year contract is up, I'm looking at options and the S II is very high on my list. Initially, it was at the top so I could use the OTG port with a thumb drive and my camera, but I've seen mention that it is disabled in some versions of the phone.

Anyone here know anything about the OTG port on the AT&T version?

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OK, so it appears that no one here knows anything about this? I guess I'll wait until I can find out more - especially because the new HTC phone (name uncertain - I've seen Vigor and Rezound) is due out in a few days.
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The at&t sgs2 has the otg port but as far as it being disabled I havent heard that yet. You can always try it out at an at&t location. But that new htc rezound phone is going to be on verizon not at&t. At&t is getting the htc vivid but I dont think it has otg support. I do know it has a f2.2 28mm camera which sounds good but hopefully takes better pics.

ocanyc said:

the htc vivid but I dont think it has otg support.

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I've looked at the details for the Vivid, and it doesn't show an OTG port. As for the Galaxy SII, testing the store one won't tell me if the new one in the box has the port. Plus, unless it has a file manager installed (doubtful), I won't have any way of testing it until I set up the phone and install Astro File Manager.
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I acquired an AT&T Galaxy S2 when AT&T first started selling them here. I really like the phone and i am coming from an iphone 4 which my wife has now. Anyway I just connected a thumbdrive to my S2 through an adapter cable. The thumbdirve lite up and showed up fine on the S2. I then copied 2 photos from the thumbdrive to the SD card on the S2 and then copied them back again with no problems. I used the file manager that comes with the S2. The OTG port seems to work just fine.

If the SII comes with a file manager, that will make testing easier. So what makes you like the SII over the iPhone 4 other than the OTG port?
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I have had iphones for the last thee years and was getting a little tired of dealing with buggy iTunes and Apples control. The iphone is a good device and certainly has set the standard for smartphones. On the Samsung S2 I like the larger great quality screen, an excellent snapshot camera (even has a smile detector for a shutter trigger), replaceable battery, weights less, also well supported for apps. The stock battery on the S2 lasted as long as the iPhone (charge every night), but I wanted lots of margin just in case I needed to use the phone more than my normal routine. I purchase the Korean Samsung 2000ma battery and installed it and the phone in a TPU case. Perfect fit and feels a little better to hold. With the heavery battery and case the S2 is still 8 grams lighter than my wife's iPhone 4. It also feels a little thiner but I didn't measure the difference. I have most of the same apps running on the S2 as I had on the iPhone, including two IMAP email accounts, personal and company. I have only been using the S2 for about a month and so far I like it. On the downside the S2 does not have all the third party hardware support as the iPhone, but I'm not missing anything yet. The phone is completely stock (not rooted) and I have no plans to mess with it. It's fine the way it is.

I walked in to my local AT&T store with an OTG adapter cable and a thumb drive with lots of JPGs. I walked over to the display S II, and asked the AT&T salesperson if it was OK for me to disconnect the cable and plug mine in. He said OK. He was amazed when he saw I was connecting a thumb drive, and more so when I showed him that the Gallery App picked up all the photos immediately. I explained about OTG ports, and he had me try the cable out on a couple of other phones, without success. He thanked me for showing him this option.

So, I want to do the same with the new HTC phone that's due out this week, and then maybe make a decision.
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Jeff Peterman said:

I walked in to my local AT&T store with an OTG adapter cable and a thumb drive with lots of JPGs. I walked over to the display S II, and asked the AT&T salesperson if it was OK for me to disconnect the cable and plug mine in. He said OK. He was amazed when he saw I was connecting a thumb drive, and more so when I showed him that the Gallery App picked up all the photos immediately. I explained about OTG ports, and he had me try the cable out on a couple of other phones, without success. He thanked me for showing him this option.

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What are OTG Ports?