Fans of the doomed-from-the-start Palm Foleo will be happy to hear that the Celio REDFLY Windows Mobile companion notebook is now available online. The Celio REDFLY works to extend the computing power of your Windows Mobile smartphone to a notebook form-factor with larger display and full-sized QWERTY keyboard. With no OS, CPU or storage, the Celio
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IntoMobile on 8th Aug 2008 (via intomobile.com)
There's a chance Palm will revive its "mobile companion" Foleo. According to The Register, the Treo maker could release the discontinued device with WiMAX radio to make it work with Sprint's XOHM network. Apparently, Palm has recently invited beta testers which are at the same time existing smartphone owners to test an "innovative new product." I
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IntoMobile on 1st May 2008 (via intomobile.com)
The Celio REDFLY is billed as the Mobile Companion to your Windows Mobile device, but the death of the Palm Foleo, the REDFLY's role as a true mobile computing client is questionable. Nevertheless, Mobility Today has had a chance to review the Celio REDFLY and came away impressed. With no need to do any local processing
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IntoMobile on 21st Mar 2008 (via intomobile.com)
CNET's Mobile Gadgeteer Matthew Miller posted an informative video demo of the Redfly Windows Mobile Smartphone Companion at… Can the REDFLY Windows Mobile Smartphone Companion succeed where the Foleo couldn't? The Redfly is actually LESS than what the never-launched Palm Foleo was to supposed to be. The Redfly does not have any internal functions. It is just
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MobileViewsBlog on 20th Mar 2008 (via mobileviews.com)
You may love it, you may hate it, but that isn't going to keep Celio from pushing their Palm Foleo-like REDFLY Mobile Companion to Windows Mobile 5/6 smartphone users around the world. Check out this little hands-on demo of the Celio REDFLY with Celio CEO Kirt Bailey. Props to Smartphone Thoughts for the vid. [Via: Smartphone Thoughts]
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IntoMobile on 15th Jan 2008 (via intomobile.com)
Why should a little thing like an entire platform-scrapping from Palm stop Celio from following in their red-stained footprints? After having pulled the plug on the craptastic failure that was the Palm Foleo, Celio is announcing the Celio REDFLY Smartphone Interface System. Like it's Palm-borne cousin, the Celio REDFLY is essentially a computing companion for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 users looking f
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IntoMobile on 9th Jan 2008 (via intomobile.com)
Last year Palm announced the cancellation of their Palm Foleo product. It was a full-size mobile companion with a keyboard and large screen to help with editing documents etc. Now Redfly are to launch a similar device for Windows Mobile. Packing an 8" display, touchpad and keyboard it'll give that laptop-feel to your Windows Mobile phone. USB flash-drive access and charging plus VGA output and USB
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CoolSmartPhone on 2nd Jan 2008 (via coolsmartphone.com)
The irony is so thick we're almost drowning in it, but but we had to see this thing through to the end. Back in 2005 we got a once in a lifetime scoop -- the Treo 700w -- that proved once and for all Palm was doing non-Palm OS devices. Then, earlier this year, we were there when Jeff Hawkins announced the ill-fated Foleo at D5. We got the first ever hands-on of the
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Engadget on 27th Dec 2007 (via engadget.com)