Hello
The Redfly reminds me the stupidly aborted Foléo by Palm…
As a Macintosh aficionado (I hate Window) and
discouraged by Palm lack of imagination and guts… ( The Palm OS is Mac compatible…) I turned out to a Nokia E90 which is very smart, fully equiped but not Touch…
I wonder if the Redfly would be compatible with a Symbian software – alias my Nokia E90.
It will be a perfect companion while travelling… having than WiFi , an FM radio, voice recorder a camera etc in it…
Thwe rReddfly could become a smart extension and works like a light computer…
As I mostly work in french I also wonder if the Qwerty Redfly keybord could generate also the french accentuated caracters like é è ç è û etc.
So I could forget my PowerBook at home …
Any idea ?

VGA output but NO AUDIO?

This looks like a very neat device, would certainly be handy to use with my WM6 phone but the price would be a major turnoff. I google’d around and brighthand.com quoted the price being near $500, I can’t see myself paying so much for such a simple device. My EEE PC costs less and still included all of the essentials while this is more of a thin client device.

A $200 or so price would be much more reasonable in my mind.

Has anybody tried this with the SoftMaker suite? If the Redfly works well with PlanMaker, etc., this thing will allow me to retire my aging NEC MP 900c (which is becoming buggier by the day).

Thanks James M for the answers. You figured out my main question(my 2 year old was climbing all over me while I was typing my question). I really would love to know how the Redfly works on a WM Standard Smartphone (i.e. Moto Q). The reason I was wondering about charging the redfly with USB because I keep a 12 V car / usb charger in my car. The KWM set-up is a KVM switch (KVM being an abbreviation for Keyboard, Video, Mouse). When you want to conviently use a full sized montitor, mouse and keyboard for more than one computer.

I didn’t have any docs loaded on the phone to show in Word Mobile but trust me it works fine. Celio has indicated that WM is just the beginning, maybe we’ll see an iPhone version down the road.

“It’s a great writing solution…”

Yeah, thanks for NOT showing Pocket Word!!! FIEND!!! (That you showed PDFs doesn’t count!)

Now, if it worked with an iPhone …

What I don’t understand is, what are the mechanics of this magic? It seems they’ve done what the Foleo *couldn’t* — actually *mirror* the phone at boosted res. And if Redfly can do that with WinMob … why not iPhone? (Yeah, yeah, access to the iPhone BT stack … but hey … maybe if they twist Jobs’s arm? But even if they *can’t* access the BT stack, why not simply via USB? Did they download the frikkin iSDK?!!?)

It might only officially work with WM Pro (touch screen), but I have tested it with a T-Mobile Shadow (non-touch screen) and it works quite well. I’ll post something on my blog after I return from Alaska at the end of the week with test results from the Shadow and Dash devices.

John M: The charger is not like a laptop charger its just a regular charger kinda looks like what my old LG dumb phone uses. I don’t think there is a way to charge this via USB if that is what you are asking. I am not sure why you would want to. With the beta unit I have (keep in mind this may change) the Redfly has to be on to charge the phone. The battery life on the Redfly is so good that I have it set to never turn off on battery power. I have gone three days with regular use (Approx 2 hours per day) and not run it dead. I have not been told of a car charging solution if there is one. I don’t know what a KVM set-up is. As I mentioned earlier the only supported phones at this point run WM pro. This is deceiving because it’s called a “smartphone companion” since a lot of us know the technical difference between a smartphone (wm Std.) and ppc (wm pro).

I am using my i760. The unit James has in his video has some slight improvements from mine as far has the hardware goes. I have a Treo 700wx which I donated to our Police Dept. a couple months ago. I am going to borrow it back for a few hours to see how it works with it. I know they (Celio) are working to get more devices working with it. I am secretly hoping for support for the Q and the SMT5800, one of which will be my next backup device since I donated the Treo. It’s interesting that right now the only devices they have compatible are WM Pro devices. I have some thoughts on the redfly posted at my personal blog as well. http://www.sixftunda.blogspot.com

James Morman- what phone are you using your Redfly with?

I’ve been waiting for this type of solution a long time.
The dollars have already been set aside for an Experia and a Redfly.
Would love to see this married to a Nokia N82 for the cam/vid – real-time vid capabilities. Talk about an enterprise solution, using something like FlixWagon with a RedFly for vidconferencing would be a killer!
It’s coming…

I don’t think I would use this as it stands but it is terrific to see this type of innovative product get to market. It is another step towards the ‘modular’ computer idea.

Glad you mentioned that misutsu. I am charging my Freedom keychain GPS this morning. Maybe this afternoon or tomorrow I will try it out but I bet it will work good.

And the Gps navigation ?