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A few months ago we wrote an article about the Redfly Mobile Companion and how it was coming for the BlackBerry [Cool Device Alert! Use your BlackBerry like a Netbook with Redfly]. Well that day has arrived and we have had our grubby fingers on a demo unit for the last couple of days now.
The RedFly Mobile Companion is made by Celio Corp and has been available for other smartphones for some time, but now it is available for the BlackBerry Tour, Curve 8900, and Bold smartphones.
The device itself is about the same size as the new netbooks you see these days. The installation was very simple and only required a small over-the-air (OTA) download (780kb) direct to your phone from the Celio website (http://m.celiocorp.com/install). Once the driver is installed you get the standard permissions screen, which requires nothing more than a quick exit and save.
From an IT standpoint the introduction of the Redfly into a corporate environment is almost a no-brainer. It doesn't need anti-virus software, it uses the existing internet connection on the BlackBerry, it gets access to the corporate network through the BlackBerry BES connection and if it breaks, then replacement is just a matter of hooking up a new Redfly.
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