Celio's Redfly Mobile Companion now supports RIM's BlackBerry smartphones.

Already available for Windows Mobile, with Google Android support coming soon, Redfly is a laptop-like peripheral that is essentially a dumb terminal to turn smartphones into notebook computers. The Redfly comes in two models, the C8N and C7.

Both Redfly models sport a large screen, full QWERTY keyboard, touchpad, up to an 8-hour battery, Bluetooth, and USB, VGA and media ports. The REDFLY has no OS, storage or processor, but uses the BlackBerry smartphone`s computing power to give users the ability to interact with a handset’s familiar user interface on an 800 x 480 resolution display.

At launch, the Redly, which start at $199, is supporting the BlackBerry Bold 9000, BlackBerry Curve 8900 and BlackBerry Tour 9630 smartphones. The driver for BlackBerry smartphones is offered free-of-charge for existing and new REDFLY Mobile Companion C8N and C7 owners and can be downloaded here.

Back in 2007, Palm killed a similar product to the Redfly, called the Foleo, before it even shipped. The laptop-like 2.5-pound Foleo, with a 10-inch screen and a full-size keyboard, was to serve as the inaugural device in a new category of product for Palm called Mobile Companions.

Foleo’s main purpose was to allow users to view and edit e-mail and documents from a smartphone (preferably a Treo) more conveniently, automatically synchronizing files back and forth between itself and the mobile handset through a wireless Bluetooth connection. You would have also been able to access the Internet for Web and e-mail, edit Microsoft Office documents and more on Foleo without a smartphone present.