Celio's REDFLY C8N hands-on and video not terribly exciting
By Laura June 
posted November 18th 2008 2:17PM
posted November 18th 2008 2:17PM
posted November 18th 2008 2:17PM
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Makes me miss the Folio.
*foleo
But even Palm had the good sense not to make it, even though they nearly, nearly hit upon the Eee formula.
nothing wrong with the Foleo except the OS. It was perfect though, it's between a normal laptop and a smartphone. hat's why I got an Eee 1000 and returned it for an Asus N10, awesome netbook.
Engadget killed Palm Foleo :-) !remember that letter to Palm
So I guess it's time for an Engadget letter to Celio?
I had initially dismissed the redfly/foleo. Then I learned a bit more about it and though, that's actually pretty smart. But with this version, I am back to dismissal. A shell that provides a bigger screen, more battery life and a good keyboard to the storage, CPU and connectivity of smartphone a is a good idea, but this is a step back.
This would totally be awesome if it was $50.
hmmm..... $49.99 MAYbe...
$299? I want some of whatever they're smoking to think someone would spend that much to buy that crapgadget. It would be bad enough if everything was great in our economy, but with it tanking? REDFLY just o.d.ed on the crazy pills.
FUGLY ok now time to take your apple hands of it engadget and put it back in its box, then dump it in the sea, I can now see why engadget reports about apple so much, nothing to say I
guess
If I had a nickle for every time you said 'fugly' in your posts, I'd be...about $1.05 richer.
Would it be too much to ask you to use a different word? Maybe make one up of your own? How about mashing 'cacophany of the eyes' together...
Ex: That think is cockeyes.
Ok, I know functionality > looks but that thing is downright hideous.
*thing
C8N? C eight N? say ten? SATAN???????
Ahahaha, awesome dude, awesome.
john is satan. (look down)
good thing i saw your post at the last second...i was about to post the same thing. i got all excited for nothing...
If it could act sort of like a thin-client for multiple things (not just my phone), then I might be interested. Something like:
1) Bluetooth BIP and HID for acting as the front-end to my phone
2) VNC-Viewer and OpenSSH for controlling (phone, desktop, etc.) via VNC
3) USB client and VGA/DVI _input_ for acting as a console for KVMs and systems
Then it might be a compelling device. Especially with a convertible-tablet form factor, and Android, Maemo, or Ubuntu-MID as the OS.
Otherwise, I don't see the point.
Oh, and, lower the price to about $50-$100 (and I'm being generous at $100... unless it has more than thin client capability, like a local quickstart OS for running as a stand-alone Wifi device for web browsing, PMP, and IMAP ... in that case, $100-$150; but $299 is incredibly over-priced even with those capabilities).
Too little too late.
There's no point in editing in WM 6.1 when a similarly priced Windows netbook (EEE PC) allows me to hook my Diamond to it, and read the docs from my phone, edit in Windows, and save back to the phone, all the while allowing the phone to act as a 3G modem so I can actually use Firefox to browse.
EEE PC + WM 6.1 + PDA Net software is a portable work/media killer, especially with good 3G service.
Is this going to fix them blocking previously purchased tracks? These jerks are blocking tracks ppl purchased, without notification and not refunding points until you call.