Celio REDFLY Now Compatible With BlackBerry
By Simon Sage on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 7:29 PM PST In Accessories, BlackBerry
I was pretty sure the undead season had come and gone, but the tormented spirit of the far-fetched mobile companion idea has reared its ugly head once more in the form of fresh BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) drivers for the Celio redfly. Now, should you somehow become inclined, it’s now possible to plug your BlackBerry into this laptop-esque accessory (via USB or Bluetooth) and experience your smartphone on a bigger screen with a full keyboard and trackpad. If that sounds disturbingly familiar, it’s because you’re remembering the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Foleo, a project that was canned for fairly obvious reasons. Dusan still has a lot of hope for the idea, but I still don’t understand why I just wouldn’t invest a comparable amount of cash in a netbook or UMPC. In any case, if you’re thinking of picking up a redfly, they have one model going for $199 and another more buxom one for $249 over here. If you already have one, drivers for the BlackBerry 8900 Curve, Bold 9000, and Storm 9630 can be picked up from m.celiocorp.com/install on your mobile.
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With mobile convergent devices cracking the 1 ghz mark and mobile platform maturation creating inviting development environments, the Redfly wraps up the mobile keyboard/larger display necessity for performing real work without serious exposure to significant loss.
The industries I’m involved in suffer similar market momentum use case denigration issues. The deployed base for what are now standardized products creates its own reinforcing metaphorical weather patterns so as to make obvious solutions seem irrational to those caught up within the current paradigm.
The Redfly dumb-terminal model may not prove to be the ultimate successor to netbooks but it answers a need more than a want.
However, the market pressures which brought about netbooks have not abated as witnessed by the steady progression in their development which is blurring the lines for the form factor.
Bring on more device fragmentation. An N900 like device with a real OS, true USB hosting, projector and virtual laser keyboard with tactile keystroke feedback thrown in?
I’ll take two.