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Celio Redfly Drops Price To $399.95

Posted by Doug Smith on August 13, 2008 – 9:27 am  Share
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RedflyWithPhone_small If you remember back a few months I wrote an article (CLICK HERE) about the Celio Redfly which is basically an extension of your Mobile Device that clones your devices screen on a large 8″ screen (800×480), 8.3 inch 80 key QWERTY Keyboard, and Touchpad for easy interfacing with your mobile device. What I like about it is that with Browsers like Skyfire and Opera, surfing the web would be almost as good as using your laptop. But my only hang up has been the price. At $499.99 is was way over priced in my opinion for what is only at the end of the day, a “clone” laptop. What really hurts is the full Operating System Netbooks that you can get for the same or even  a little less money! Just a quick search turned this up on Amazon, (CLICK HERE)

The Netbooks come with 1.6GHz processor, 120 GB hard drives, and Windows operating systems! All that for the same amount of money. Celio obviously did not count on this when they were developing the Redfly. That is why Celio has cut the price of the Redfly by $100.00 to $399.95. I still don’t think that $399.95 is low enough to catch consumers attention though.

I still am a fan of the Celio Redfly, don’t get me wrong. I would love to own one of these, but the value for the money is still not close. Let us know what you think and how much you would pay (retail) for the Redfly!

Source: WMExperts.com

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  • Andrew Colacurcio
    I'll wait till mini projectors come out for mobile phones.
  • David Gray
    If this thing were $299 I'd jump down off the fence RIGHT NOW and let them reach in my pocket and take out the cash.
  • tony
    I agree that this is a bad idea. Who in their right mind would buy something like this for the retail price they're offering? I have no use for it. I use Pocket Controller to view my phone on my labtop and it works great. Not as clear as on the Celio but for a fraction of the price I'm not complaining.

    I'd rather save the $400 towards the purchase of the Samsun Omnia i900 once AT&T gets it's stubby hands on it. BTW, what's the ETA on the Omnia?
  • adam
    If I were a Celio exec I would be researching some good bankruptcy lawyers right about now.
  • It's not even a neat idea, it's rather stupid.. I'm mean it basically means you'll be carrying two laptops around with you.. yes PPCs are nice, but when I need real work done I'll use my laptop when I'm out and about not my phone, even with this device... essentially you're using the computing power of your phone so that's sure to have a drain on the battery of the phone.. it doesn't mention (unless I missed it) about what type of battery drain you can expect though...
  • Josh H
    I would spend MAYBE $200 on something like that. More likely to spend $150. Consider the fact that it's just an extension device. You can spend $20 and buy an application that will allow you to do the same thing with a computer.

    I agree that for the $400-500 price range you should be looking to a netbook. Way more functionality, and not much bigger if at all.

    It's a neat idea. And if it were MUCH cheaper I might rock one for trips when I don't need the laptop. Still a bit too pricey for me though.
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