Celio takes REDFLY franchise to docks and PC software

by Chris Ziegler posted Jan 7th 2009 at 12:01AM

If you're crazy stoked about hooking up your X1 to a big ol' monitor and keyboard but you're not nearly as stoked about buying into one of Celio's dedicated REDFLY boxes, the company's announcing two new solutions that might fit the bill. First up, the aptly-named REDFLY PC Software brings all the spoils of your WinMo-based handset to any XP- or Vista-based system of your choice -- which, let's be honest, is probably a pretty limited-appeal solution unless you're dealing with some wild software package that's only available on your phone. Next up is the more interesting of the two -- the Smartphone Dock -- that basically takes a full-fledged REDFLY lappie and strips out all the human-interface stuff; in other words, bring your own keyboard and monitor. The dock's being billed as a proof of concept at this point, but the software hits shelves in March.

Filed under: Software, Windows Mobile

Tags: celio, dock, pc software, PcSoftware, redfly, smartphone dock, SmartphoneDock, windows mobile, WindowsMobile, winmo

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nick @ Jan 7th 2009 1:49AM

wow great move by celio if their doing what i think they are. are they realizing that netbooks are going to be a hit and with the full size keyboards customers would rather have a wm screen on a better machine like a acer or hp mini laptop? if i could just plug this into my netbook and get my wm screen on it i would loooove it. celio just makes such small keybaords

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Chris @ Jan 16th 2009 12:48PM

@nick, you can do what you request now and for free, no need to wait for march.
Just use EveryWAN Remote Support from Sparus Software, it is free, you can install it on your netbook and control the WinMo from PC keyboard , screen and mouse ...