Oops there goes a billion kilowatt dam.
Network World’s article Nine wireless companies to watch, focuses on products and services that can impact corporate computing. What topped their list? RedFly from Celio.
Redfly Makes Your Smartphone a Laptop. It’s a smartphone terminal, not unlike the ill-fated Palm Folio, with an eight-inch screen and full keyboard. It enables you to use your smartphone like a laptop.
Redfly links to the smartphone via a USB cable or with Bluetooth, enabling your smartphone applications to be used on a larger screen and with a full keyboard. It simply re-displays what is on the phone onto a laptop-sized screen, (it also has a VGA port).
It weighs two pounds and also acts a charger for the smartphone. There is no operating system, central processing unit or storage. The device sells for $499 and has eight hours of battery life.
It works with Windows Mobile operating system, found in smartphones from Palm, Motorola, Samsung & HTC. Currently it doesn’t work with the Blackberry or devices like Nokia’s WiMAX web tablet ($410).
India will have over 27.5 million WiMAX users by 2012, says the WiMAX Forum. Now imagine a $200 WiMax phone plugged into a $150 mobile terminal/settop. Deliver it all on the big screen.
What is on Network World’s list of hot products?
- RedFly: The aforementioned smartphone terminal.
- GainSpan: A 802.11bg implementation via a dual-core ARM system-on-a-chip, and software, that uses so little power you can run Wi-Fi-based sensors for years on simple batteries. The company incubated in Intel’s New Business Initiatives Group, where the co-founders were exploring sensor networks.
- The Mojix STAR System: A distributed passive RFID system that lets a single Mojix-patented antenna array read tag emissions as far as 1,000 feet.
- Ozmo Devices: An extension to the 802.11 protocol, making it possible for a laptop and devices to exchange information on a predictable schedule (your laptop uses 802.11’s contention mechanism to connect to an access point). The 9Mbps connections are point to point within a 30-foot range, and can use both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands.
- Strata8 Local area cellular service for your enterprise, via its own spectrum in the 1900MHz band, available in 16 U.S. markets. You select from a gradually growing set of CDMA cell phones (including Moto Q and Treo 700wx), and pay $29.95 per month per subscriber.
- SynapSense: A wireless sensor-based system to monitor and manage energy use and cooling in big data centers.
- uMobility: A set of three applications that together create a secure, optimized connection for data as well as voice. Works with cell phones as well as Wi-Fi/cell phones. The software spans both cellular and Wi-Fi networks, to extend desktop PC and phone (via SIP PBX support) desktop phone features to mobile devices.
- MobilityCentral: A hosted software service pulls user information from your enterprise directories, mobile devices, and cellular carriers. It correlates all this, and creates up-to-date Web dashboard reports so you can compare planned cellular minutes and spending with actual usage data. Monthly fee is typically about $5 per user.
- Innovaticus: Lets wireless (and wired) devices negotiate automatically with each other to share any kind of digital content. Users create and manage their personal network of devices, and designate files of all types (and soon “things” in their network like screens, disk drives, speakers, keyboards, printers and digicams) for access and use from anywhere by other Innovaticus users. In beta testing.
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