http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/ Engadget Comments for Celio's new REDFLY C7 and C8N answer questions no one is asking http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/Nov 18th 2008 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/Nov 18th 2008 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/Nov 18th 2008 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/Nov 18th 2008 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/
Oh, I see, you meant "hear, hear"

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Personally, a winmo phone with a 3+ inch screen, potent multimedia capabilities, slim design w/keyboard, and fully connected at all times (a la xperia) does the trick for me.]]>Nov 19th 2008 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/
If you wanted to compose e-mail or blog for 8 hours straight your netbook is not going to make it, but this device might. if you lose your netbook you may have valuable information on it, even if its just in your browser cache, while losing a redfly would just mean losing the device, but no information.

This device may do very when when attending a conference, where you may bot have much opportunity to recharge, and you need to take notes constantly.

As said before, the niche is small, but in that niche its perfect.]]>Nov 18th 2008 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/Nov 18th 2008 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/Nov 18th 2008 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/
They've taken a device that is a hard-sell under the best of circumstances and made it worse by compounded marketing mistakes. Things might improve if they drop the price to $99.

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I always looked forward to a full blown PC platform with cellular phone built in perhaps a built in projector for in office computing with USB and bluetooth capabilities.

I always thought that an OQO type device with a cell phone built into it would have been cool. with voice activated dialing via bluetooth and maybe a caller ID link to a watch and you would be good to go.]]>Nov 18th 2008 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/celios-new-redfly-c7-and-c8n-answer-questions-no-one-is-asking/
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Iit's supposed to be an economical work tool to help business people with a smartphone or pocket PC get more from their phone without needing a Lap top.
For 1 person to buy themselves a net-book only costs slightly more. even if you then add anti-virus subscriptions and stuff, still not much difference. but that's not who they are trying to sell them too.

For a large corporation issuing lap-tops to random people who barely understand how to use them, you have a lot more to worry about - the actual cost of the hardware becomes quite small compared to the time and resources spent supporting idiots who can't look after their kit. They need extra security measures. they have to move their data from lap tops to desk tops. they loose them, and complain that they've lost their data too.

The redfly avoids all that because it actually does nothing new.
Don't get me wrong, I have one and I like it. but if I'm using it on a train or in a café and I get a knife pointed at me, I'll hand it over without a care. All my data and info and other important stuff is hidden in my pocket. I can buy a new Redfly 10 minutes later and carry on working.

It's just a tool, a keyboard and a screen for a very small PC that your company already supports. It needs no maintainance, no updates, very little support. If it breaks you swap it out. no set-up needed.

I don't know why they added a video port, that doesn't seem to be the market they were chasing.
I'm also slightly puzzled to spot they they aren't red any more.
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