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Celio Corp offers a piece of hardware aimed at helping enterprise smartphone users maximize the potential of their devices. If you tote your smartphone and your laptop on sales calls or field visits just so you don't have to use the tiny handheld keyboard to file reports or send back data, the Redfly ($399) may be just what you're craving.

It's an 8-inch monitor that folds against a full-size laptop-style keyboard and weighs two pounds. It has no real innards. It simply connects via Bluetooth or USB to your smartphone.

From the Redfly, you access data files, e-mail or anything else on your phone. You can send messages, view or write Office Mobile documents and even plug into a projector to give a PowerPoint presentation from your smartphone

Liberating though it is to send and receive email from your phone, if you're truly segueing to the smartphone-as-mobile-office option, the Redfly is a practical accessory to consider.

More on Redfly, including a video tour and white paper, here.

If concept behind Redfly sounds familiar, it should. Last year, Palm killed a similar-sounding product, 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.