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Re:$1M will buy 122 acres in part of U.S. National Radio Qui... by cfallin on Sunday May 22, 2016 @02:09PM (#11749586)
> Can smartphones even be plugged directly into an Ethernet socket?

Yup. I've done this with my Nexus 5. You need a USB OTG cable and a USB Ethernet adapter. Dorkiest thing ever, walking around the apartment trailing an Ethernet cable, but page-loads were pretty snappy, all right...

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Re:$1M will buy 122 acres in part of U.S. National Radio Qui... by aab0 on Sunday May 22, 2016 @04:49PM (#11750227)
Neat. I should've guessed that there would be a USB adapter. Is it plug-and-play or does it require additional drivers?
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Re:$1M will buy 122 acres in part of U.S. National Radio Qui... by cfallin on Sunday May 22, 2016 @05:19PM (#11750329)
I'm pretty sure it was plug-and-play. It's actually kind of cool how many USB peripherals Android natively supports -- keyboards, mice, flash drives, etc...
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Re:$1M will buy 122 acres in part of U.S. National Radio Qui... by milkey_mouse on Sunday May 22, 2016 @06:05PM (#11750483)
Of course; under the hood it's just Linux. Though Google has replaced most of the userspace drivers and stuff are still the same good old Linux ones.
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