I believe wireless Internet access is the most important factor for real estate, not mobile applications built on any individual phone. Once we have the all over wireless Internet access, the technologies will run thru the web.

Mobile Listings? They are all mobile if everyone could get access to the web through their phone.

We have a strong belief at Incredible Agent that all Realtors need in todays market is a cell phone, a laptop, internet access, and a good website with all the tools they need running off the web.

Realtors & Brokerages will be able to save themselves a lot of money on overhead and create greater efficiencies in their businesses if they had Internet access wherever they needed it.

Regarding mobile listings – I just meant listings that are optimized to be viewed on mobile devices.

As wi-fi data networks and better wireless telephony networks like 3G expand, so will the ability for RE professionals to finally start taking advantage of the benefits. There are the obvious advantages of digital docs and signatures. As far as listings are concerned, I think you’ll see more and more efforts to provide mobile versions of the same content emerge over the next year. It will not be long before the need to create two different versions of the content won’t be necessary. Web browsers are being ported to formats that allow for the display of standard content on hand helds, until then, agents that add mobile delivery of content to their listing distribution points will obviously have an advantage over their competitors,especially in listing presentations. We love hearing stories from our clients about how they have landed listings by demonstrating the mobile capabilities of their broadcasts. Unified communication is something that is becoming mainstream in any business, Microsoft has been pouring a great deal of effort in this area for a while now, just this week they made some new announcements with regard to their effort to develop platforms that tie together texting,instant messaging, email, voice mail and telephony. How long it will be before there is widespread consumer demand for mobile real estate content is anybody’s guess. I think like all things tech, it will take a little longer than the pundits predict, but it’s definitely coming and re professionals that ignore the potential significance do so at their own peril.

I am more reliant on my laptop than my palm phone device. Having a wireless card on my laptop enables me to pull up listings that the customer can see when we are on the road. I also use a bluetooth battery operated printer. I have found that the combination of the two enables me to practically be a mobile office.

You definitely have to have as much information at your fingertips as possible, to be on a level playing field. It is so competitive to find buyers, knowledge is power.