January 3rd, 2008
Celio is Like the Foleo, Only Worse
By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
Anyone remember the Foleo? We do - it was Palm’s ill-fated attempt to marry an underpowered UMPC with a cell phone, and it died a very, very swift death. See our coverage “5 Reasons Why Palm’s New Foleo Device Will Fail”
Today we fond out that the Foleo concept is rising from the grave in the form of yet another ill-fated laptop and smartphone pairing: The Celio REDFLY SIS. $499. SIS is short for, Smartphone Interface System, a fancy acronym that only nails the coffin shut. Or as they put it “REDFLY unleashes the computer in your smartphone!” Ha!
We Say: From an unnecessary acronym, weird all-caps product name, to the rhymes-with-Foleo company name, all we can say is shoo fly to the REDFLY. Source: dvice.com
Anonymous says:
You guys are going to be sorely wrong - will be back in 3 months to confirm it to you!!!
January 5th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Matt Chroust says:
ANONYMOUS, I’m hoping we’ll get the chance to find out this time…
By the way, why does this site have a weird all caps logo, and should that concern me with respect to anything else you folks do here?
January 8th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Gord says:
I’m just glad to see postings by Alice. It’s the main reason I come back here. M.S’s entries are ok. It’s just that there’s something refreshing about reading tech news from the view of a female writer.
As for the “Celio”, I have doubts though the package looks cool. But I think a company only gets one try at these sorts of things.
And the “Foleo” got cancelled well before anything would have gotten on store shelves. afaik, Palm got cold feet after some online reviewers wrote it off.
The Celia looks trippy but I’d rather have portability in one piece instead of two.
January 9th, 2008 at 6:29 am