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Can REDFLY sell in an EeePC market?

Posted by Zonk on from the how-it-feels-to-be-a-fembot-living-in-a-manbot's-manputer's-world dept.

palmsolo (aka Matthew Miller) writes "I was lucky enough to get a chance to evaluate an early beta of the REDFLY device and just posted some initial impressions at ZDNet. As a person who commutes on the train 2 hours every day and usually always has a Windows Mobile device in tow, this is actually a perfect device for me; real productivity is possible with text entry and enjoy surfing on a larger display. However, at $500 can this device really compete in the Asus EeePC market or will it die like the Palm Foleo?"

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  1. Re:well by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Informative

    How they ever came to be more prevalent than palm - I don't know- the ease of using with exchange maybe?

    I think it has more to do with a lack of updates from Palm. They effectively stood still for so long that hardware finally reached a point where WinCE could be run at a reasonable speed. When device makers looked at the (non-existent) multimedia features of PalmOS and the (competent) multimedia features of WinCE, they chose WinCE almost by default.

    Now if Cobalt had been pushed out the door, maybe things would have been different. But instead, Cobalt sits on the shelf with not a single device maker using it. Not even Palm hardware.
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  2. Re:Or... by stoolpigeon · · Score: 5, Informative

    I doubt it. If you read this article on Asustek you will find things like, "Since the Eee PC hit store shelves last fall, sales have been strong. Between October and the end of the year, Asustek sold more than 300,000 Eee PCs, and executives say they expect to sell between 3.5 million and 5 million this year."

    I've seen a number of them out and about - I don't think they can fail by any sane measurement, as they have already succeeded by most.

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  3. Re:That explains it. by blueZ3 · · Score: 4, Informative
    I don't like AT&T that much, but I do have an iPhone with them and the data plan is $20 a month for unlimited EDGE. Not sure where the

    multiple thousand dollar "data" bills
    idea came from, but I don't think that's the way iPhone contracts work.
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  4. Re:and "slamming" by DeepZenPill · · Score: 2, Informative

    The "unlimited" EDGE plan was created in response to a lot of bad press about huge bills.
    This is not true, if in reference to the iPhone plan. There are 3 tiers of service for iPhone users, all of which have unlimited EDGE and always have.