Redfly Turns Your Smart Phone Into a PC
The idea that a business traveler would someday carry his or her desktop and applications on a small device has been around for well over a decade. Of course, back then, small was brick-size, and the notion was that the user would then be able to plug this device into a screen, keyboard, and mouse wherever they landed.
The concept was considered daring because it was making the outrageous assumption that computing devices were going to get small enough for a user to carry them comfortably while remaining powerful enough to hold and process megabytes of data.
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Of course, the idea that there would need to be a screen and keyboard awaiting them at each stopping point was testament to the fact that folks couldn't foresee that these tools could be miniaturized as well.
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All RedFly does is duplicate what is on your cell phone. It has no application processor, operating system, or storage. There is a small kernel OS, on a Xilinx chip, that enables RedFly to establish a connection with the cell phone and then port the video from the smartphone over to its screen. But there is no need to synchronize data or duplicate applications.
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