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Win a RedFly Mobile Companion!

The CrackBerry Turns 3 Years Old Birthday Contests continue this week and next up we have a RedFly C7 Mobile Companion up for grabs! Just login to CrackBerry.com and leave a single comment to this blog post to be entered for your chance to win. Entry ends this Sunday, March 7th at Midnight PST.

We've covered the RedFly a few times in the blogs here since it was recently introduced for BlackBerry, but in case you missed be sure to check out our RedFly review and also the CelioCorp update video we got from the company two weeks back at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. To sum it up though, the Redfly Smartphone Terminal lets you use your smartphone like a laptop with its 7" screen and full keyboard. The RedFly links to your smartphone via a USB cable or wireless Bluetooth connection and extends the BlackBerry interface to a more convenient and capable environment. At less than 1.5 lbs, the Redfly C7 has power-saving, 7-inch display, sleek, black design, full qwerty keyboard and light-weight battery that provides up to 5-hour performance.

You can learn more about the RedFly at ShopCrackBerry or over at the CelioCorp website.

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The folks from Celio Corp were on hand last week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where they had a pod at the BlackBerry booth and I caught up with them to see how things were going. They released the RedFly for BlackBerry a few months back (read our review) so I first got an update on that. From there they also showed me a couple new things... Moab and a prototype touchscreen RedFly.

Moab is a small docking station that connects a full-size keyboard, mouse and display of choice to your BlackBerry. This allows you to use your BlackBerry with basically any monitor/keyboard you like (great for kiosks like those on hand at the BlackBerry booth). The prototype touchscreen RedFly will allow you to use touch input to control your non-touchscreen BlackBerry. I sort of joked in the video that this is the first touchscreen BlackBerry Bold we have seen to date! Check out the video for full details.

Contest: Win a Redfly Mobile Companion for BlackBerry! Details Below..

If you're on the go and find yourself stuck in airports, on planes or in hotel rooms you know how valuable your BlackBerry can be to get work done. Be it emailing, finishing up a presentation or various other tasks, we like to use every spare minute to get things done. Sometimes the keyboard and small screen can bring your productivity down, and lets face it, not everyone has a laptop or netbook to cart around. Wifi isn't always available, and sometimes tethering isn't an option. All these added together can make for some crappy traveling and even less productivity. Enter Redfly from Celio Corp. Redfly carries the tagline "Use Your Smartphone Like A Laptop" and you can do just that. The unit itself is smaller than a netbook which makes for extreme portability, and you just plug in your device (or jump on via Bluetooth) and you're up and running. You're BlackBerry screen is instantly transported to the Redfly's 7 or 8 inch screen and you have a full QWERTY keyboard at your disposal. Now you can use the power of your BlackBerry as a laptop. Email, BlackBerry Messenger, MemoPad, Calendar and more are all at your disposal. Lets start from the beginning and take a look at the Redfly unit and all of its functions.

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