Celio Redfly price drops $100- now $399
We recently told you about the introduction of the Celio Redfly for the consumer market and now comes word that the price has been reduced $100. The Redfly is now selling for $399 instead of the $499 it has been listed for making it an even more attractive solution for the road warrior. The Redfly is a unique laptop-like gadget without memory or a hard drive, instead it uses the processor and horsepower from your Windows Mobile phone. We covered the Redfly extensively when it was first introduced for the enterprise and were pretty impressed with how useful it can be for mobile computing.
As it is, the product is good, but if Celio could make the screen “reversible” (like the HTC Jasjar) and the image rotatable, this would be a fantastic device; Microsoft Reader for ebooks, display for GPS navigation, etc.
Eh…drop it another $100 and I’ll think about it. Drop it $200 and I’ll definately get one. I just fail to see the point. If I needed something like that, I’d just get a used Q1 off ebay and have a full Windows computer.
The thing that bothers me about the Redfly is that fact that it pretty much ties you to Windows Mobile devices. Unless Celio releases connection software that would make it compatible with Blackberry and/or Symbian devices, the Redfly would become an expensive brick if I were to switch to a non-WM phone. At least the Foleo could have been usable even without a Treo!
It’s still overpriced. I suspect we’ll be hearing about the Redfly being EOLed before too long.
Next stop, $99 on ebay.
I am with Engadget on this one:
“Celio REDFLY drops to $400, still not useful”
FYI:
http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2008/08/10/leaning-to-the-redfly/
Still, $99 on ebay next stop.