IPhone, Gphone, E.T. phone home
By Glenn Roberts, Jr., Friday, November 9, 2007.Bookmarking Sites
Google this week poses the question in its blog: "What would your phone do?"
With an expanding list of features on cutting-edge mobile devices and a growing population of tech-advanced mobile users, what features are on the wish list for real estate professionals?
Phones are increasingly all-in-one multi-media communications portals, with users creating, viewing and sharing text messages, e-mails, photos and videos. With Google's news this week about an "Open Handset Alliance" to create a standard mobile software platform and prod the industry toward a faster pace of innovation, the incessant buzz of the iPhone, and the real estate industry's increasing reliance on mobile tools (see Inman News series), you can expect to see more real estate-relevant applications that fit snugly in the palm of your hand.
So what's missing for real estate professionals? What mobile innovations do you expect to see for the industry and which ones do you think will stick?
Let us know where you think the mobile market is boldly going.
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Submitted by Anonymous on November 9, 2007 - 4:04pm.
Google's recent purchase of Grandcentral.com should give some ideas.
The G-phone could well be "any" phone.
Submitted by Anonymous on November 12, 2007 - 5:48am.
my phone would make me a pizza and print money, CA MONEY!
Submitted by Anonymous on November 12, 2007 - 8:59am.
How about a phone that could actually makes phone calls?
None of this walking outside or "Let me go to the window"; No dropped calls. A bluetooth headset that doesn't need a car that is Rolls Royce quiet or one that can mute the rumble from gulf breezes? How about batteries that last a Realtor work day?
I'd pay extra for a phone that works.
Submitted by Anonymous on November 12, 2007 - 12:17pm.
Measure rooms via laser
auto tabulate area and volume of a room
laser pointer
create mood lighting
sound alarm
Submitted by Anonymous on November 12, 2007 - 5:05pm.
Fred,
You forgot: amortize a loan, prequalify a buyer with electronic underwriting, predict the future depreciation of property
Submitted by Anonymous on November 12, 2007 - 11:54pm.
I asked that question recently while sitting at the dinner table with my two daughters: What would you want your cell phone to do?
They answered, "I wish it could fly and turn into a little pet."
Next gen sees the cell as essential fun.
We see it as an object that makes us work harder.
Interesting.
We could consider how our CUSTOMERS might want to interact with us on that device. I assert that there should be an element of fun in there somewhere.