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hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocketnow.com and in this video we're going to talk about the celio red fly vs. netbook question that we've been trying to answer throughout the recent most videos that we've posted on the pocketnow.com video channel for those of you that don't know the see Leo red fly was released a few years ago a sort of a windows mobile terminal so the idea is that you could plug in any windows mobile device or or most of them at least whether it's touchscreen or non touch screen and you suddenly get a large screen with your device a keyboard that's much bigger than the one that you get on your device if it has a keyboard and you get a full mouse pointer you also get the capability to charge your device while it is plugged into the to the red fly or you could connect via bluetooth if you want to have a wireless connection now the problem with the red fly has always been cost when it came out a few years ago it was five or six hundred dollars and people who had just paid five or six hundred dollars for a windows mobile smartphone thought why would i pay that amount again for a mobile companion when I could just buy you know a laptop for seven or eight hundred dollars it just it just didn't make sense the value proposition wasn't there in most situations and so silly you knows this and they've lowered the price many times to the point where right now the higher end model is 250 this is the CA 10 or the c7 with a smaller screen and some lower capabilities is 200 but then Along Came netbooks and the whole equation kind of changed because for the same price 200 or 250 dollars you can get a full fledged windows XP machine that will run the full version of microsoft office it could run a lot of major programs do a web applications with ease and the red fly is just going off of your phone which really doesn't have all of these capabilities it has some of the capabilities that a full-fledged netbook does so then the question becomes if you're looking for a mobile companion should you go netbook or should you go red fly well here is here's what I think in some situations the red flag makes a lot of sense for example the the business world let's say you run an organization 100 employees you've recently deployed windows mobile devices to everyone in your organization so that they can stay connected with email be productive that sort of thing and you're thinking about issuing everybody some sort of mobile laptop netbook read flood because you want them to be able to be even more productive on the road well think about it if you buy everybody a netbook you have to buy a copy of microsoft office for all of those computers which raises the price significantly in addition you have to pay for other software that you may need to run on the netbook if you get everyone a red fly people are just going to use the software that comes on their phone so if it's a windows mobile device you have Office Mobile you have opera mobile for web browsing or skyfire for flash-based for web browsing with flash and also the cost of ownership on the whole for the corporation is lower because you don't have to have a separate IT guy to manage the laptops or the netbooks which take more upkeep whereas with a red fly the only IT that you need to do is with the phone because it's connecting with the mobile device but for the consumer for me and you people that aren't necessarily in a big corporate environment or own a huge company does the red fly make sense not at the current price point it does not make sense and and see Leo is working really hard to hit the magical price point of ninety-nine dollars if you had a red fly for ninety-nine dollars I think it would then make sense to have it hey you could have it in your glove compartment you could have it in your bag in your school bag if it's at if it's at such a low cost um it really really makes sense so that's pretty much it for the netbook versus red flag question hopefully we were able to provide some insight into this issue for you if you're considering getting a red fly or getting a netbook be sure to follow us on Twitter for more on windows mobile and windows mobile accessories twitter.com slash pocket nail tweets and that's it for now