Adapter Adds USB Port to Galaxy Tab 10.1

Samsung's new Galaxy Tab Adapter adds a USB port to your ten-inch tablet. Just like Apple's camera connection kit, it hooks into the 30-pin connector and provides a USB port. Unlike Apple's connector, it will let you hook up pretty much any kind of USB device, including but not limited to “keyboards, mice, thumb drives,” according to Samsung's blurb.

Mice? Yup. The pitch continues “Insert a USB mouse or keyboard to improve enterprise efficiency at the office or at home.” I did a little digging and it turns out that if you hook up a mouse to the Tab (via USB or Bluetooth), a mouse pointer will appear on the screen.

This could actually prove pretty handy. Whenever I use my iPad along with a Bluetooth keyboard, it's jarring to have to reach up and touch the screen for editing. While I know that Apple will never, ever add a mouse pointer to iOS, I can appreciate that the feature would be useful on occasion.

The dongle is designed only for the Tab 10.1. The seven-inch Tab already has its own USB port, so you don't need this anyway. $20.

Galaxy Tab Adapter USB

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