CES 2008: Redfly, a docking station for your mobile phone

Las Vegas (NV) – At first glance the Redfly device may look like a small computer, but don’t you dare call it a laptop. While the reddish device (it’s called Redfly after all) does have a decent-sized screen and full keyboard, it’s really meant to be plugged into mobile phones running the Windows Mobile operating system. The Redfly doesn’t actually have any memory of its own and merely copies the phone screen and operating system.

Any documents written on the Redfly are saved back to the mobile phone, but users can plug in a USB flash stick in the back for more storage. A VGA output port is also located on the back.

So why would anyone buy such a “headless” device that can’t function on its own ? Redfly says the device has no startup time and weighs less than 2 lbs. The company also compares what Redfly does to how docking stations work for laptops.