Gadgetory

hey guys it's bran a minimun from pocketnow.com and we've got something pretty cool to show you if you know the company celio that makes the red fly you know that they make a kind of netbook like device that will allow you to connect your windows mobile phone to a device with a larger screen higher resolution a full keyboard and a touchpad so basically you have a big screen for your mobile device and they haven't been selling too well as far as we know they keep lowering the price they're coming out with new models people in law enforcement and government have been kind of adopting these but consumers are wondering why you would want to have a kind of a laptop solution it costs you know $200 three hundred dollars depending on the model when you can just use your phone take it out of your pocket or and use a netbook with it well they come out with me this new beta software which actually lets you connect to any computer or any laptop and have the same experience where you're using your keyboard through your phone using your mouse just as if you were using a red fly and you can also change the resolution so you can actually scale a device like this to 1024 x 768 resolution anyway let me show you it now okay so here we are at the computer and for those of you that don't know this is what the see Leo red fly looks like it's this laptop like looking device that you plug your windows mobile device into anyway let's get started with the demonstration so I'm simply going to plug in this sprint HTC touch pro2 my to the USB connector and I'm going to launch the see Leo Corp red fly mobile viewer right here which I've installed and by the way this is free right now but it's in beta for 60 days only eventually they're probably going to sell this software so I open this up and I see that activesync is trying to connect and then I press the connect button and it says connecting to USB please wait and before before the screen actually comes up let me show you some of these buttons so we have disconnect we have send an end if you're making a call you have the left softkey the right softkey okay and some other things over here so here you see right now that we have the screen that is coming from the sprint touch pro right on the screen now it's only scaled to 640 by 480 resolution which is actually the native resolution right now it's sort of pointless but watch this if you go up to view you can actually scale this to a full 1024 x 768 resolution this is a resolution that windows mobile doesn't even support but red fly is able to make this happen which is one of the huge advantages of actually using it so it's going to take another moment to kind of render but you're going to see that with full fidelity it's going to make for a 1024 x 768 window okay and so here we are and there's some display issues but we can go into programs for you get a better idea so wow look at this we've got a ton of icons on the screen at once I've never seen so many icons on a windows mobile screen at one time we can go into any program like the communications manager and sometimes it doesn't scale properly as seen here because obviously the communications manager is not made for such a massive resolution and we can exit and we're back into active sync and we can go into messaging and that i'd imagine messaging is a great place to use this because you can see a ton of messages on the screen at one time and just like as if you were using a red fly you can use the keyboard from your computer so i'm going to open up word mobile and i'm going to use my keyboard and type a document it slows down the device a little bit but not too bad so here we go it's almost loaded this is a test of using my keyboard so there it is just as you would expect so the mobile viewer does indeed work pretty well it's it does a good job at scaling your device to a really high resolution that you really can't get anywhere else if you have a windows mobile device of course all programs don't scale to 1024 x 768 resolution windows mobile does not support this resolution but artificially through the software it does now what does this work with well it works with a lot of devices windows mobile touchscreen devices non touch screen devices I know you probably can't see this but the blackjack two for example the motorola q 9h the HTC touch pro touch diamond i mean it supports a lot of devices but here's the big but here's the big question if you have a laptop with you our netbook and you have your smartphone why would you want to go onto your smartphone and put it on your netbook or laptop screen to use wouldn't you just use the native programs on your netbook or a laptop or use the web-based programs or something like that rather than having to deal with kind of a clunky interface of windows mobile when things are slow and not perfectly optimized for 1024 x 768 resolution anyway whether it has utility or it doesn't the program is free right now and it's actually pretty cool so maybe you should give it a try we'll post links on pocketnow.com on how to download it and for more windows mobile videos be sure to follow us on youtube at youtube.com slash pocket now video that's it for now