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hey guys its brand a minimun from pocket now calm and this is a demonstration of the Seelie ored fly ca10 with two windows mobile devices the touch pro 2 and the blackjack two now for those of you that don't know the celio red fly is like a windows mobile terminal so the idea is that you tote the red fly around with you and you can utilize the full capabilities of your windows phone although you have a very large screen here this is the the higher end model with an 8-inch screen you have a full keyboard a mouse pad and even if you're using a non-touchscreen device you'll still get a mouse cursor on the screen plus a host of inputs so for example this has two USB inputs m1 can be used for the device one can be used for a mouse you could also connect a USB flash drive for storage which is kind of cool so if you have a word document or a PowerPoint and you want to sit down and edit it you can bring around your flash drive plug it in and be good to go you can also connect it to a VGA video report so you can connect it to a monitor or some LCD televisions will allow you to connect dear red fly or you can connect it to a projector if you're giving a presentation in addition most read flies will come with this media cable which allows you to connect to the composite cables if your display or your projector doesn't use a VGA connector like this so let's go through the process of actually connecting a device the first thing that you have to do is install the drivers on your phone which takes probably five minutes if you know how to install a cab file and I've already done that on the touch pro 2 here so I'm going to take the sync cable you can also do this over Bluetooth but the performance is much much better over USB and I'm going to plug it in to one of the USB ports I'm going to turn on the red fly with this button open the screen and already it says red fly it's it starts up in literally half of a second it's very fast startup time connect the device here wait about five seconds and watch what happens okay here we are so reviewing spb mobile shell three on the red fly which is what I'm running on the touch pro two it's an 800 x 480 resolution right now and that's actually the same resolution as the touch pro two if you saw the previous video you know that this model of the red fly will actually scale to 1024 x 768 on some devices in fact you're going to see it scale that high on the blackjack to right now red fly or see Leo is working out some issues with devices with the wvga resolution like the xperia x1 and the touch pro two so right now if you have a touch pro 2 or an xperia x1 or anything else that has a wvga screen you're only going to get the native resolution on the display so let's click around a little bit I'm going to go into the start menu just as normal let's go to office mobile and we get of course Office Mobile and we can click on word mobile and we can type a document just as if we were on the device but of course we get this nice spacious keyboard which allows for some quick or text entry although there's a little bit of a lag let me try to to show you it's actually pretty good in word mobile you'll get a little bit of a lag in messaging and SMS but it's really great to have such a large keyboard the keys are smaller than they are on a standard laptop of course but that's because it has to fit into the small form factor now we get some special buttons on the keyboard we have the call start and call end button here and we can tap the call end button which will take us of course back home we have a messaging button a home button we have things to allow us to connect to the external projector we also have the red fly menu and you may be able to see that down here you press function then r which takes you actually into the the red fly menu which is based in windows mobile and the interface is kind of clunky i'm surprised actually celio left it so ugly we can set up a connection via bluetooth an input we can change the speed of the touch bed make a little faster a little bit slower change the keyboard repeat rate battery power and by the way I should mention that the red fly has an inbuilt very large battery so not only does it power itself but it's charged when I touch pro2 as well so it's kind of another function of the red fly can actually charge your device we can increase the screen brightness of course you want to leave it a little bit lower so you don't kill the battery external power same settings for screen brightness hotkeys so you can set some of these buttons on the keyboard to do different things we go into advanced ClearType support which is turn on right now so that you can cut get get kind of a crisper font performance you can specify if you want the device to have better image clarity or better performance right now it's on image clarity so that it's the clearest picture that we can do although I want to slide it to performance and see how well video playback is in core player if I open up a of the office so I'm going to do that now okay we're trying to play an episode of the office right now and it's not even applying so you don't want to use the red fly as a mobile you know video viewer it's not going to perform very well in that respect it's more so for productivity and that sort of thing speaking of which let's take a look at how the red flight does with internet browsing how it looks on a larger screen so we are going to go into opera mobile and we're connected to Wi-Fi right now let's go to pocket now calm all right looks like I just got a text message out there hit enter and let's see how it looks on the screen and here it comes now it's a bit slow right now over Wi-Fi guess I'm connected to a slow network but that is opera mobile 9.5 things appear as you would expect them to fear except video doesn't work too well as we just saw previously so let's take a look at another device connected to the red fly we're going to connect the blackjack 2 here and so I'm going to disconnect the touch pro two and take it out from the back then I'm going to get the cable the Samsung proprietary cable for the blackjack 2 and plug it in and of course i've already installed the drivers onto the blackjack two so that's ready to go and the screen dims here after a little while of inactivity plug it in and connecting and that was about seven seconds and when you connect to a non-touchscreen windows mobile device things get a little bit more weird because the the that took about seven seconds and when you connect to a Windows Mobile standard non touch screen device things get a little weird they don't appear that great on the screen you don't get the sliding panel interface now that took about seven seconds so when you connect a non-touchscreen windows mobile device things get a little bit weird but they still work generally speaking so we have the mouse cursor on the screen of course we can click on the start button and there goes and we just get a tremendous amount of icons on the screen at one time if you're using the blackjack to you know that because of the low resolution screen you have to constantly be tapping over to get to see all your programs but here we get to see all the programs in one screen if we go into settings for example we get a ton of settings on the screen at one time and there's the next screen and now of course on Windows Mobile standard you don't have an ok button in the upper right corner so this is really where the home button on the keyboard is good it'll take you back home ok so and I've just connected the red fly to my computer monitor to see what the video output looks like so I hit the f2 button and I get this message on the screen there are three display modes I can go with LCD only LCD and VGA or just vga i'm going to do LCD and vga which means that it'll be on the red fly the image and it'll be on the monitor and you can change the resolution to 800 x 480 or 800 x 600 we're going to go the maximum here 800 x 600 and click OK and it says changing resolution while connected requires the red flag to disconnect and reconnect so we're going to allow that to continue ok what we have here is the red fly exporting video from my blackjack two to my computer monitor here so it's really interesting to see such a massive display to come from the the mobile device and so imagine connecting this to a projector or to a you know any kind of computer monitor to get a really really big view this is perfect for presentations I think if you don't feel like toting around a laptop and not everything scales just right but some things do so overall the Red fly acts as a nice mobile workstation for your windows mobile device it allows you to have a big screen a big keyboard a mouse pad it allows you to connect to a projector if you want to do a presentation although you don't want to watch movies on it it gives you USB ports so you can use an external mouse external keyboard or even connect a USB flash drive so you can bring the presentation along or listen to some music or look at some pictures comrade said a lot of people probably wonder why would I spend two to three hundred dollars on a red fly when I could just buy a netbook for two to four hundred dollars well there's good arguments for and against that and a lot of it has to do with cost of ownership and other issues relating to to price when you actually cut it down to what things actually cost we're going to go through all of that have a little bit of a discussion about the red fly versus netbook question coming up in the next video for more on windows mobile and windows mobile accessories be sure to follow us on twitter at twitter.com/nataliealund