OTG support in Android Smartphones It seems that Samsung are phasing out OTG support in their latest devices, i.e. the S6 no longer has OTG support.

Is this a general trend across smartphone manufacturers? Also, I cannot see the reason for it, it makes the devices less flexible in how they can be used. Is there a downside to having an Android device support OTG that I may have missed?
&quot;OTG support in Android Smartphones
the correct term is:
USB host support
can be easily detected if supported or not, connecting usb mouse to your smartphone via OTG cable.
If mouse is powered up and red laser is on, so supported.
The other way to detect if USB host mode is supported, is to install and run
USB OTG Checker app
Some claim USB Host Mode can be hidden and to enable it you should edit xml permissions configuration file