Home > Consumer Reviews > Official Celio Corp Listing. The Redfly Smartphone Terminal Is a Terminal for Windows Mobile Phones. Easily Use Your Smartphone Email, Attachments, Web Browser and Remote Access. Connects Via Bluetooth or USB (Charges Most Phones), 8 Hour Battery.

So far so good, It hooked up both in USB and BlueTooth with no hassle whatsoever.

It's a little bigger than pocket size, but it will fit comfortably in a man purse, or maybe even a largish organizer.

First very quick impression; I like it!

It's not worth $500, but it's definately worth $200; just for the browser. I tried all the ordinarily troublesome sites I use like my webmail, bank, HMO Yahoo and Google personal portals and everything works except Gmail. And I'm just about done using that anyway!

The software/firmware is still not ready for prime time. When I run anything that appropriates the top (icon) bar, it doesn't give it back, and it disables the mouse clicks on the icons. That means that I have to revert to hotkeys to do simple things like close a program. I've read that this might be due to the today screen plugin not always being compatible. I use the standard HTC plugin, so to my way of thinking, If they are advertising compatibility with an HTC Touch the HTC plugin should work.

I generally don't like running beta software, but I downloaded the HTC Touch WinMo 6.1 beta driver anyway. The tested driver is for WinMo 6.0.

The REDFLY works better now.

The icon bar issue seems to be fixed, but the today screen still wasn't rendering properly. The Time/Date item at the top and the Calendar at the bottom were only showing a grey screen and "A picture is supposed to be here" icon. I changed the Theme to the ugly green WinMo 6.1 default screen, and those came back.

I ran it both in USB and BlueTooth mode, and that all worked as before, and I brought up BeJeweled II which takes over the whole screen. Everything came back to normal when I closed it.

The advantages:

1. Browser: PIE sux, but then what else is new? That's just PIE! Opera 8.65 is WONDERFUL! It's at least as good as my Nokia N800, and I don't have to put up with Linux or being tied to a wifi hotspot. There are a few websites that don't work as advertised, most notably most things Google. But most of the others work fine. More than on the Nokia. One of the things I like about the Nokia is the absolutely gorgeous screen. The REDFLY is at least as good, and bigger. For my OLD eyeballs, that's important.

2. Ebooks: Better than Kindle at half the price.

3. Email: Can read the WHOLE thing.

4. Office, Within the limits of Office Mobile, everything works great!

5. Boots up in less time than recovering from standby on my FlipStart UMPC, and has a better form factor. For a while I thought the FS was going to be my answer, but short battery life and extremely long bootup times prevented that.

6. Battery lasts ALL DAY! Even when keeping the phone charged.

This thing REALLY NEEDS a touchscreen. I can't count the number of times I poked the screen with my finger expecting something to happen, only to remember that I needed to use the curser/touchpad and swearing at myself for forgetting.

I bought this and a windows smartphone PPC (Sprint Treo 800w) to become more efficient at work. I work in a very large Fortune 20 company and I spend most of my day and organize my life be working with outlook 2003 calendar, tasks, memos, webex, netmeeting, etc. Because I am so mobile, i used to lug my laptop around to all of my meetings, but we dont have wifi everywhere and I get horrible battery life, etc. I started to use my palm OS treo 700P to take notes, check calendar, create appointments, etc but it was too small to do any serious work. Then I stumbled upon the redfly and started reading the various reviews and posts at treocentral.com / wmexperts.com and I thought it would be perfect for what I do. With the redfly at $199 I thought I would give it a shot. I ordered a treo 800w (windows smartphone) and the redfly.

Well today was my first day with the combo at work and holey smokes, does it work well. I am still learning the ropes of windows mobile, but I was able to use the redfly to take notes and view my calendar in two meetings today. I also VPN'ed into our company intranet and navigated our internal erooms and sharepoint sites. THe large screen makes viewing web content great for such a small device. The battery life is fantastic. The only bummer is that you cant display full motion video due to lag. Working normally with business applications like outlook, internet explorer, etc work like a champ.

If you are a mobile warrior and you can rely 100% on your smartphone, this is the tool to get.

Just got my redfly in last night - took it in to work on the train w/ me this morning.
Very impressed.
Build quality is top notch - this thing feels nice and solid, but not heavy.
Keyboard layout is nice - adding phone function to fn keys is great!
Screen is nice and bright - very easy to read.
Initial set-up is completely idiot proof, took less than three minutes.
Touchpad will change your life. Having a mouse makes this a 200 dollar laptop.
Startup is damn near instantaneous.

Great Product - if you have a winmo smartphone, this is a MUST BUY!!!

I already use my phone like a tiny computer, but the addition of the Redfly makes the conecpt much more acceptable. The long life battery last me through my East-to-West coast flights (4 hours) with plenty of battery life left over for other work and presentations. The additional USB port on the device gives the unit access to external (Fat32) drives ; my device normally would not have access to these drives.

This is a great extion of your phone the products does everything it says it does and more. Great when answering emails and surfing the web on the go. Lose alot of pounds not haveing to carry my laptop wait for it to boot up this product has instan on up and running in 35 seconds. Nothing but good things to say about this product and at this new great price it is a steal bu one now before the price goes up. Pleas don't listen to anything negative that you read on the internet about this product because are people who do not have or have use this products because once you get one and use it for youurself it is great.