Mobile Devices category archives

Say hello to iPad. Today was the long awaited day that the Apple “tablet” device was unveiled. It’s being touted as magical and revolutionary. The jury is out on those statements but I have to say that with exception of one big glaring omission, I like it. It has the potential to be a bit [...]

With the plethora of gift options out there it can be tough to choose what to buy for your lovable geek. So, whether you’re seeking ideas for others or a few treats for yourself this year, the following list of top 20 gifts for real estate geeks will help point you in the right direction. [...]

Real Estate Businesses are Going Mobile
Business applications for the Smartphone, Blackberry and iPhone are becoming more of a necessity for today’s Real Estate Industry Professional and Brokerage. Consumers are able to download these applications right from their portable/mobile phones and devices for FREE.  The question is what should be included in your Real Estate Business [...]

I’ve been a ridiculous Iphone holdout, predominantly b/c my t-mobile bill is about half what it would be with ATT.  I tried to make the switch to an Android phone last year with the release of the G1, and took the clunky handset back after a couple of weeks trying to learn to love it.  [...]

It’s a pretty sure bet that you have a cell phone. What about text messaging, do you use it? If you don’t, consider yourself in a very small minority. Nielsen Mobile surveys shows that by the second quarter of 2008, text messages had exceeded the number of cell phone calls by an [...]

Google’s geeks have been hard at work developing a slick voice recognition app for mobile devices that allows you to use voice commands to generate search results. According to TechCrunch the folks at Google were all fired up to have the app ready for download last Friday but for whatever reason, Apple failed to get [...]

I would have done a vlog post on this, but the view from my chair just isn’t interesting enough.
TechCrunch announced today that the first Android based phone will be powered by T-Mobile and is scheduled for release next month. One of the comments in Biggs’ post cracked me up
“none of the buckets of [...]

Take a tip from me. If you’re a first gen iPhone user, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO UPGRADE TO THE NEW FIRMWARE. Give it a few days. The iTunes server will most likely render your phone useless as it has in my case. After downloading and installing the firmware, the final step is to connect to [...]

Twitter and WWDC Effect
Monday is Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference and Geekdom anxiously awaits the rumored announcement of iPhone 2.0. If you’re thinking about using Twitter for something important, you might be up a &8$% creek. Twitter may have taken on 15 million business partners recently but probably not in time. If history is any [...]

Coldwell Banker announced at an O’Reilly conference today that it is teaming up with Dash to add their listings as a home search feed for Dash Express GPS navigation device owners.
Dash touts itself as “the first two-way, Internet-connected GPS navigation system”. Dash also provides an API that provides a way for users to customize their [...]

Everyone in the world is dissecting the potential merger of Microsoft and Yahoo. Joel opines on the impact to real estate search. I haven’t been overly impressed with either company when it comes to the real estate vertical and it’s anyone’s guess whether it will receive much attention in a merged environment. Some of the [...]

As a Realtor, I like many of you, am on the run a lot and don’t always have the luxury of being at my office. And in a time where a 5 minute response time is 5 minutes too long, I depend on my phone and my laptop. And while we all have [...]