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Now that thousands of people have had the chance to download and use the REDFLY Mobile Viewer software, we want to gather as much customer feedback as possible during the rest of the beta period for the Mobile Viewer.

To encourage customers to participate in a new REDFLY Mobile Viewer feedback survey, everyone who completes the survey will automatically be entered in a random drawing for a chance to win 2 free round-trip airline tickets from anywhere in the continental U.S. to Hawaii. The drawing will be held around June 6, 2009.

If you’ve already downloaded the REDFLY Mobile Viewer beta, you should automatically receive an email with the survey invitation sometime before May 6th (you don’t have to do anything, the email with the invite will be sent to you).

Anyone who downloads the REDFLY Mobile Viewer beta in the future (from now until June 1, 2009) will receive an email with the survey invitation within 7 days of downloading the beta installer.
To download the free REDFLY Mobile Viewer beta, visit www.celiocorp.com/viewer.

This giveaway promotion is only open to residents of the continental United States. Employees of Celio Corp or their direct family members are not eligible.

I’m thrilled to report that in just over two weeks, more than 4,000 people have downloaded the REDFLY Mobile Viewer beta software for Windows XP and Vista.

We’ve received great feedback from beta users so far and are please that it’s been well received.

We see the Mobile Viewer as a great way to expose the REDFLY technology to a broader audience. It fits very nicely into our product portfolio with the current Mobile Companion line and future products. Want to see which REDFLY is right for you? Take a look at this comparison page.

Christopher Lawton wrote a nice piece titled, “Making the Connection” in The Wall Street Journal today discussing new products making it easier for mobile workers to connect to the Internet.

The REDFLY Mobile Companion is one of Lawton’s featured solutions and he spoke specifically about the Memphis Police Department’s REDFLY deployment to its 1,200 officers.

Here’s a link to the article online.

Take a look at the companion video to the article below.

Celio Corp will have a booth (No. 556) at the 2009 Citrix Synergy conference May 4th – 7th in Las Vegas. If you plan to attend, register at http://citrixsynergy.com and enter this special registration code, SPON32.

Citrix Synergy 2009 will provide a holistic view of how you can break from the costs and complexities of the distributed computing model and make application delivery a strategic priority.

The REDFLY Mobile Companion is a great enabler of Citrix technology. Using just your smartphone and a REDFLY (no PC or laptop required), you can work with full Windows applications using REDFLY’s larger screen, keyboard and touchpad. With Citrix XenApp and/or XenDesktop deployed within your company, you can give your mobile workforce tightly controlled access to full desktops or even only individual windows applications (no desktop needed or provided).

Click here to see one of my other blog posts featuring more about REDFLY with Citrix and see a video demo of the REDFLY in action running Citrix.

Will the new Mobile Viewer cannibalize Celio’s REDFLY hardware sales?

CTIA was a big occasion for Celio Corp. The announcement of the new REDFLY Mobile Viewer, now in Public Beta, allows users to extend their smartphone applications to the display and keyboard of their laptop or desktop PC. The Andrew Seybold Choice Awards named the REDFLY Mobile Companion the most Innovative Mobile Service. And Celio announced support for an additional 18 Windows Mobile compatible phones.

In the course of Celio’s CTIA briefings an analyst asked, “Will the Mobile Viewer cannibalize Celio’s REDFLY hardware sales?” That’s a great question. We’ll answer it here.

Celio’s mission, which we state in every presentation and announcement, is to create, define and drive the technologies that allow the smartphone to become the primary mobile computing device.

The Mobile Viewer is directly in line with that vision. Clearly, the ability to instantly view and use the smartphone’s applications from a laptop or desktop PC has wide applicability and it opens REDFLY functionality up to a new assortment of users. But could it reduce the acceptance and sales of the REDFLY Mobile Companion itself?

In a word, no. Consider this: Gartner is reporting that even in a down market smartphone sales increased by 3.7% for Q4 2008 and analyst firm iSuppli is projecting growth of more than 11% for 2009, which by even conservative estimates would mean an additional 183.9M smartphone unit sales.

For some users, the ability to use smartphone applications from existing laptop PCs is sufficient. But for tens of thousands of others, the convenience of using smartphone applications outside of the office - and without having to carry or fire up a laptop PC - makes the REDFLY Mobile Companion form factor the winning key. In fact, the REDFLY is regularly eliminating the need to buy and support additional laptops for field force workers such as police officers, mobile healthcare professionals, and myriads of other mobile service providers.

For us, it is all about giving users more ways to interact with their smartphones as the smartphone becomes the primary computing device. If you or your company’s IT Staff want an instant-on, low TCO, no maintenance hassle (no PC upkeep, virus protection, etc.) larger screen and keyboard for your smartphone - REDFLY Mobile Companion is right for you. If you don’t mind waiting for your laptop to boot, keeping two data plans, maintaining two sets of apps, or need the full computing abilities of a laptop (Photoshop, video editing etc.), but still want a larger screen and keyboard for your smartphone usage - REDFLY Mobile Viewer is for you.

If Celio’s mission is to drive and create the technologies to enhance smartphone computing in a way that meets every user’s needs and desires, then clearly the Mobile Viewer is one of the necessary components of that vision. Even more clearly, Celio’s overall market share and hardware presence will continue to mirror the growth of smartphone usage.

The REDFLY Mobile Companion, was named the Most Innovative Mobile Service at the 19th Annual Andrew Seybold Choice Awards Dinner April 2nd. Celio joins previous winners such as Research in Motion, T-Mobile, and Qualcomm to take home this prestigious award.

We at Celio Corp are extremely proud to add the Seybold Award to our list of accolades validating the REDFLY vision for the future of smartphone computing.

This week we released a major phone driver and REDFLY firmware update.

The new phone driver and REDFLY firmware combination increases communication speeds over USB and Bluetooth while providing more stability and adding support for more third-party applications such as Opera 9.5.

As part of the software update, 18 new Windows Mobile phones were added to the list of REDFLY supported phones bringing the total to 54.

This software update is recommended for all REDFLY users.

Visit www.celiocorp.com/install to download the updates and view installation instructions.

Remember, for optimal performance, you should always update your REDFLY Mobile Companion firmware to a version matching your phone driver software. Download both the appropriate operating system version of the driver software and the REDFLY firmware to your phone before beginning the installation. This is also true for the REDFLY Mobile Viewer application, whose version should match your phone driver as well.

I’d like to introduce you to the latest addition to the REDFLY product line.

This week at the CTIA show in Las Vegas, Celio Corp expanded the REDFLY product line adding a software option for smartphone users - the REDFLY Mobile Viewer software for Windows XP and Vista. The REDFLY Mobile Viewer combined with two existing REDFLY Mobile Companion hardware models give smartphone users a variety of ways to get real work done on a smartphone.

The REDFLY Mobile Viewer lets you conveniently use your favorite Windows Mobile applications at full size on your PC and experience many of the award-winning REDFLY Mobile Companion benefits when your smartphone is connected to your PC.

What can you do with the REDFLY Mobile Viewer? Text message friends and family throughout the day. Keep your work and personal lives separate while multitasking on one device. Go from 8 viewable cells to 50 while using Excel Mobile right on your phone. See more of any smartphone application at resolutions up to 1024×768 pixels - all using the full-size keyboard and mouse you already enjoy on your PC to control your phone.

Visit www.celiocorp.com to find out more about the REDFLY Mobile Viewer and download a FREE beta version of the software.

Which REDFLY product is right for you? See a comparison of products and features.

Today REDFLY was named a Silver Medal winner of the “2008 Editor’s Best Awards” in the Mobile & Wireless category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro magazine.

The other two winners in the Mobile & Wireless category were Zenprise (Gold medal) and Amazon’s Kindle (Bronze medal).

The 2008 Editor’s Best Awards appear in the August 2008 issue of Windows IT Pro magazine available now.

The magazine’s editors talked to hundreds of vendors, attended dozens of product demos, and tried out and reviewed products in the Windows market to find the best offerings of the past year in 15 categories naming all winners as products that can help you do your job faster, more efficiently, or more economically.

From the article…

“The cost-effective REDFLY Mobile Companion lets mobile IT pros use smartphones as their primary computing devices while on the go, saving both time and money in a market where both are tight.”

It’s a great honor to be held in such high regards by a publication like Windows IT Pro and its editors.

This is what the magazine’s Publisher, Jeff Lewis said about the awards program…

“The 2008 Editor’s Best Awards utilize our editors’ product knowledge and subject matter expertise to identify exceptional products that benefit the Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine reader communities. Our editors selected winners based on the product’s strategic importance to the market, its competitive advantages and its value to the customer. Our editors are tough, in-the-trenches critics. They demand solid value and performance from the products they select. Editor’s Best Award winners can feel proud that the products and services they developed have earned the respect and recognition of the Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine editorial staff.”

We’ve received many inquiries regarding future REDFLY support of other mobile OS’s.

For a number of reasons we chose to target Windows Mobile first, but WM isn’t the only OS on our radar.

We are well aware of the demand for REDFLY to support Blackberry, Android, Symbian and iPhone operating systems.

While I can’t say much for now, we certainly are working towards supporting other operating systems.

Monitor this blog’s RSS feed and you’ll be amongst the first to know when we announce additional device or OS compatibility.

Kirt Bailey
President and CEO
Celio Corp

Computerworld recently cited a Ponemon Institute study indicating 637,000 laptops each year are lost at U.S. airports. Of those roughly 12,000 lost laptops per week, only about 30% to 35% are ever reclaimed. 53% of people surveyed for the study, say they keep confidential company information on their laptops and 65% admit they do nothing to secure that information.

Data loss protection is one area where REDFLY really shines. Since no data or settings are stored on REDFLY (everything stays on your smartphone), if you lose or damage REDFLY no data is lost or compromised. Just get another REDFLY, connect it to your smartphone and it’s like nothing ever happened. Since REDFLY is less expensive than most laptops or UMPCs, replacing one is also easier on your budget.

As I was writing this post, I noticed one of our first customers, Robert (who now has the fine distinction of being the first person ever to actually lose a REDFLY), just left a comment on my first blog post. Since all of his data is stored on his Treo, he didn’t compromise important or sensitive information when his REDFLY disappeared.

Of course people lose their phones too, but thanks to Windows Mobile’s remote wipe capability, if you lose your phone your data isn’t at risk for long. Since smartphones are persistently connected to the network, your IT staff can quickly send a remote wipe command. Even if you’re lucky enough to have a laptop with remote wipe functionality, it usually can’t be wiped until someone actually connects it to the Internet.

Kirt Bailey
President and CEO
Celio Corp

Welcome to the Flyspots blog where we discuss everything related to the REDFLY Mobile Companion. Check back often or subscribe to the RSS feed and stay in the loop on product info, firmware updates, news, announcements, industry insight, and general musings from the REDFLY team on mobile enterprise computing.

This is an exciting time for me personally at Celio Corp. In the short time since we officially released REDFLY, enterprise orders for evaluation units and REDFLY pilot programs have far surpassed expectations. We’re currently ramping up production to meet REDFLY demand.

I’m particularly grateful for the entire REDFLY team and all of the long hours and hard work that went into getting REDFLY to market. Not content to just sit and savor our accomplishment, we’re now hard at work testing REDFLY compatible smartphones and applications; improving drivers and firmware; and adding functionality.

We truly believe the smartphone will one day be your only computing device. We’re working towards that day knowing there’ll be a need to access your smartphone at home, at work and on the road with larger screens and keyboards in an inexpensive, secure and efficient fashion.

We’ve got some really great stuff in the works and I can’t wait to share the news with you through this blog as we progress.

We’re just getting the Flyspots blog started and would appreciate any input or feedback you may have for us. Feel free to post questions in the comments or drop us a line using the main contact form located here.

Kirt Bailey
President and CEO
Celio Corp