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Andrew over at Treonauts.com posted a great piece about REDFLY connected to his Windows Mobile smartphone running the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) native client to control a full Windows desktop via Terminal Services.

Here’s a quick video we shot internally that shows both RDP and Citrix running on a Windows Mobile phone connected to a REDFLY. Using Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop, you can give your mobile workforce tightly controlled access to full desktops or even only individual windows applications (no desktop needed or provided). Very cool. With RDP it’s easy to log in and control any Windows desktop (like your home or office PC) or any “virtualized” desktop right from the smartphone. Not shown in this video are other programs that work too with REDFLY like GoToMyPC, LogMeIn, etc.

While this has all been possible with a smartphone for some time, anyone that’s ever tried it will tell you the small screen and keyboard on the phone just doesn’t cut it in a remote access enviroment. You either have to zoom out so far to see the whole desktop that you can’t read anything or zoom in and pan around witout seeing the entire screen at once. For the first time ever, thanks to REDFLY’s 8-inch 800×480 screen, a full keyboard and a touchpad, remote access from a smartphone suddenly becomes feasible.

This video and the Treonauts post also show off another cool REDFLY feature - you can use any USB mouse (wired or wireless) and/or keyboard connected to the back of REDFLY (it has two powered USB ports) to control everything on your smartphone  not just remote access apps. This comes in handy a lot (especially when you need to shoot a video and don’t want the REDFLY to get bumped out of the frame). Most people don’t know that Windows Mobile supports a mouse, but it works very well.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 31st, 2008 at 3:13 pm