Iphone apps and now Android apps for mobile phones are being compared to what websites were 10 years ago. Back then people would ask businesses if they had a website. Not it is understood all businesses have them. What seems to be the new techie trend are mobile apps for businesses. According to eMarketer, a research company that does analysis on digital marketing and media, recently stated mobile app investment should grow significantly this year. Fewer than one-half of marketers created either a mobile or social app in 2009, but most plan to invest in a mobile app this year. If you own a phone that uses apps, you already know why this is the new hot platform. If you don’t own one of these smartphones, just trust me.
Earlier this week The New York Times launched a new, free iPhone app catered to apartment hunters. It allows users to search for listings and view various information about the apartment.
Scan2PDF Mobile is an app that could be useful to agents. This app will scan documents using your phone’s camera to convert one or more pages into a PDF. It is like having a scanner/photocopier/fax machine in your pocket.
Spreadsheet is a professional spreadsheet program for Android, supporting the XLS format. It is compatible with Excel and other XLS-based programs.
WpToGo allows you to blog while mobile! So you can update your real estate blog while waiting in the doctor’s office, or in carpool or anywhere else you have an extra minute or two. Features include creating and editing existing posts using text, images, tags and categories to multiple WordPress accounts, as well as viewing comments and post previews.
There are dozens more, but these are some of the best I’ve found thus far. Have fun!
