Realtor.com Real Estate Search App for Android Video Review

Max — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:02:32 +0000

Realtor.com has just released it’s real estate search app for the Android OS.

Realtor.com for Android App

Now everyone with an Android phone can use this powerful mobile search for real estate. The Realtor.com team did a great job incorporating many of the awesome features found in their iPhone app, like the draw mode (area highlighter) on the map view which allows users to create their custom neighborhoods by simply using their finger to outline the area they want to see homes and many others plus a couple of “Android tweaks” like the ability for a consumer to leave notes on a property by voice (see video). I did a quick review in the video below. I recommend anybody with an Android phone go to the Android Marketplace and download this app now or click here for more info! If you have a QR code reader on your Android phone scan this QR code and it will take you there.

New IR Devices for iPhone, should make connecting your iPhone to MLS lockboxes possible….

Max — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:05:05 +0000

As I travel the country speaking to real estate agents the one complaint I hear over and over is “Max when are we going to be able to use our iPhones to access our MLS lock-boxes?” My answer has normally been that the iPhone does not have IR (Infrared) capabilities so if your MLS uses lockboxes that depend on IR to communicate you will have to stick with one of the older IR capable phones (such as Palm Treo etc) or be forced to cary another separate device (a dongle) that will allow you to access the lockbox. Now all of that may be changing as several companies have developed IR devices to be used with the iPhone. They did not however do this in response to the real estate industry and their lockbox woes, but rather as a response to a much bigger market demand, that of the home consumer and their desire to use their iPhone or iPod Touch to control all of their home entertainment equipment (TV, Stereo, DVD etc). That being said now that the hardware issue has been resolved it would appear that it will only take a progressive lockbox manufacturer that wants to satisfy the needs of it’s customers to simply write an app for the iPhone that uses one of these IR hardware devices to communicate with their lockboxes. I am sure we will see the same devices soon appear for the Android phones that are flooding the market. So here’s my public appeal to the lockbox manufacturers on behalf of thousands of your customers that now use the iPhone (and now Android phones) PLEASE DEVELOP AN APPLICATION!

Here are a few of the manufacturers of these IR devices for the iPhone (and many for the iPod Touch as well), I am sure they will be looking at similar devices for the Android phones shortly.

POWER A Universal Remote Case with IR installed

POWER A Universal Remote Case without IR installed (still works as a case)

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Realtor.com Real Estate Search App for Android Video Review

New IR Devices for iPhone, should make connecting your iPhone to MLS lockboxes possible….