Are You Getting The New Redfly?
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You must have read by now about the 2 new Celio Redfly models that were just announced recently: the lighter C7 and the media-port-included C8N. Both come in with a price much lower than the first generation Redfly but what I cannot understand is who would want to get one?
The reason for that is due to the rising popularity of netbooks. Unlike these Redflys, netbooks come with a built-in OS so you can just as easily run your smartphone on it through an application like MyMobiler.
Granted it’s a lot cheaper than any netbook out there in the market. It’s also about 30% lighter than any netbook I know of but are these factors sufficient when both netbooks and Redflys are already so light?
Personally, I bought myself a netbook (an MSI Wind) a couple of weeks back when I wanted to be more portable. I did consider the Redfly but I was thinking, for under $200 more, I could get the 6 cell Wind which runs Win XP and do a lot more than a Redfly does.
I guess I have the same question Kevin from jkOnTheRun had when he read a review of an MID: which market are they exactly for? Let me know in the comments below.
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If I didn’t already have one, I might be a little hesitant to get one as well. I agree with the netbook being a good substitute, but there are advantages.
The light weight is a BIG plus and why I got it in the first place. Fits in my coat pocket and I am off for another rousing commute into the city…
Next one is that it increases the resolution of the phones screen. Personally, a big plus.
Pop in a USB drive (or 2… Haven’t tried more than that…) and you have “built in” storage on the phone. Copy, cut, paste within the phone itself. Granted, you can do this with AS/WMDC as well, but still…
Last and not least, no matter how hard you try, you cannot get anything useful off of the device regardless of how many times or how many devices it has been attached to. It just doesn’t have it. Secure and simple.
The form factor is definitely a plus, I never really considered that scenario of portability. To me portability was the netbook though this does take it to another level, albeit without as much feautres (Windows vs Windows Mobile).
As for the other suggestions, I would just use the netbook: large screen, copy/cut/paste and even USB drives.
The security is definitely a huge factor. I guess this would be more of an enterprise solution than a consumer one.
One thing a lot of individual users forget that corporate IT Departments look at is the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) is basically zero. It doesn’t need antivirus, defrag, backup or anything that a computer would need. I love mine. The startup time is way faster than any computer. All it needs is charged every few days.
That’s very true James. Good point about TCO there. I didn’t see that angle myself.
I think this is really why Celio will survive. I would love to test one of these out and show it to our IT guys at work and a few execs to see what they think.
Overall though, I think I prefer a good netbook. I am thinking about picking up a MSI Wind to use on the go…but part of me still wants one of these just because of the size and extra power it can provide to be unplugged for an entire work day.
The Redfly still has a better battery life than netbooks with quite a bright screen perfect for all day at the park. Instant on with the best bluetooth connetivity I have ever seen. Connecting to the windows mobile device takes literally less than 5 seconds. I am a heavy windows mobile user and a light pc/windows user. The size of the Redfly is literally perfect for me in regards to the tradeoff between portability and keyboard. I don’t have to or want to mess with active s(t)ink. Windows Mobile programs in general are cheaper and the virus problems are less. Eh, probably this spring Ill get a small mid device (like the aigo except with xp) which will probably do me for light pc work, then late summer I’ll get a second Redfly device (keep the first one in my room and the second video one in my coat pocket). For me, at least right now the Redfly is the preferred front end device. It seems to be built rock solid. Truth is I havent used a pc in months. But once in awhile I’ll update a rom or the cab file won’t be available or the windows mobile browser (opera) won’t be quite good enough (tax time is coming up). In those instances, it would be nice to have a (tiny) pc. But as You can tell I really like the Redfly as I do most of my writing/ebooks/music/surfing on a windows mobile device.