Smart phones are a classic example of good things coming in small packages. But sometimes I get tired of squinting at the tiny screen and poking at it with a stylus. I can use it to check my e-mail and surf the Web, but I can’t write my epic masterpiece novel on it — not with that little keyboard and screen.
So Celio Corp.’s Redfly Mobile Companion intrigued me. The two-pound device displays whatever is on your smart phone on a notebook-sized eight-inch screen with a full QWERTY keyboard. But although it sure looks and feels like one, the Redfly isn’t a laptop PC.
It has no operating system, processor or memory. It’s what we used to call a dumb terminal — just a monitor and keyboard and no real computing smarts. You can’t save any data on it, so if it’s lost or falls into enemy hands, there’s no harm done.
