Outside of the ANT capable phones the SII is the most common phone amongst IpBike users which is good to see. The Nexus and the Note and S III all have pressure sensors so should make good bike computers with an ANT USB stick. Looking at reports on the web it looks like the Galaxy SII, SIII, Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Note all have the necessary hardware for USB Host mode and with an ICS update they should hopefully get the necessary Android support. Even this invitation to install ANT USB Services is unfortunatly no garantee that things will work just an indication that they may. If it is not capable you get a simple message saying you have no need for IpSensorMan. If so you get a dialog message with a link to install ANT USB Service. If the 1.0.1 version of IpSensorMan is installed on a none natively ANT capable phone that has not had ANT USB Service installed on it then it will check if the phone thinks it is USB Host mode capable. This is far from easy the manufacturers are not advertising the feature at all well, and as well as the phone being capable at the hardware level you need suitable support in the Android version. So how to tell if a phone is USB HOST capable. With a suitable phone and the ability to plug in a suitable USB ANT stick you need the ANT USB Service application which acts as the driver level between the USB ANT stick and the ANT Radio Services application which IpSensorMan interfaces with. The Garmin one is readily available but the Sunnto Movestick mini being far smaller is probably a better choice. Phones will need to be Android 4.0+ and you will normally need a USB OTG cable.

Some tablets with 3.1 may have a full-sized USB-A port like you would have on a PC. The version of Android needs to be 3.1 or above. Basically you need a phone that supports USB Host mode with a suitable version of Android.

As of version 1.0.1 of IpBike and IpSensorMan you can have ANT support without having ANT support built into your phone as announced in this ANT press release.

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