PDAs: Two New Models Offer the Best of All Worlds
Cellular phone companies and personal digital assistant (PDA) manufacturers have been battling it out to win the war of incorporating all available mobile tools into one single portable device. Although there have been some great advancements in recent products, I continued to carry a Palm, a phone, and a camera when I showed office space—until last week.
Yoav Ben-Shushan, an agent from my office at Starboard TCN recently, purchased a Blackberry 7230 from T-Mobile. This device is close to perfection. It is a lightweight phone that has a big enough screen to view email and the Web but small enough to use as a phone. With its color screen and its ability to synchronize with Microsoft Outlook, Blackberry 7230 does it all.
Another excellent alternative is the Treo 600 from PalmOne. The Treo 600 provides the best of both worlds. It has all of the features of both a high end PDA and all of the tools found on the most expensive phones for voice and data. It also has an excellent speakerphone that can be used while performing PDA functions.
Both these PDAs can help the mobile real estate agent become more efficient in everyday business.
GoToMyPC: An Easy Way to Connect to your Computer Remotely
How would you like to be at a client’s office, at home or on vacation and have the ability to connect remotely to your office computer? For $20 a month, GotoMyPC, a Web-based remote-control access service, lets you operate a host PC from any browser-equipped desktop computer, as well as from some Pocket PC and Windows CE handhelds. You can transfer files, print remote documents locally, and run any application as though you were sitting at the host PC.
Can you image pulling up a report or working on a purchase contract that is on your company’s intranet from your home? No additional software is required, and it is all password protected. Access doesn’t get any better than GoToMyPC!
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Peter
Rosenthal and Steven Newhauser are agents 
