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redfly.jpg Celio's REDFLY Mobile Companion, the weird brainless laptop that acts as a big keyboard and screen for your Windows Mobile smartphone, just got a huge price drop: it's now $199 through October 31 on Celio's site.

The Redfly turns your smartphone into a laptop. It doesn't have any processing power itself; rather, it tethers to a Windows Mobile gadget, giving you a full (if slightly shrunken-down) keyboard and a big screen to do your Office Mobile or Web surfing work on. Recently, Celio has been plugging it as a good option for large enterprises that rely on Citrix thin client applications, as there's a Citrix client for Windows Mobile that works well with the Redfly.

At its original $499 price, though, the Redfly cost the same as a low-end laptop or decent Netbook PC, making it really hard to justify for individual buyers. Celio earlier dropped the price to $399, but that's still in the ASUS EEE PC range. At $199, the Redfly really starts to look like a peripheral. (Thanks, Dieter.)

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Posted by: alan h
September 25, 2008 10:46 PM

Wait - wasn't this same idea that was behind the Palm Foleo?

I would make a snarky comment about how Palm didn't see a market for this functionality so I'm surprised that Celio does, but Palm has other problems that led to the death of the poor Folio. We'll see if the idea picks up, I suppose.


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