“Apartment Guide makes finding apartments easier through mobile GPS,” said Arlene Mayfield, president of Apartment Guide. “Powered by Qualcomm’s BREW(R) Platform, the application also enables mobile phone subscribers to search for apartments anywhere in the United States, access prices, photos and property features and contact the leasing office directly.” [read the rest here]
I must say, this mobile thing is going to be killer. Although my gut tells me people will likely have done their homework before they leave home. I will be interested to see what goes on with this.
ForRent did a press release today for their version of mobile and it is pretty darn cool. I am off to check out the AG’s attempts at the mobile apartment search. I will let you know what I think in a future post. Technorati Tags: apartment guide mobile, apartment marketing, apartment market
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I wonder if this actually reduces the amount of research done before apartment hunting. A lot of people research to find out what is available in a given area for a given set of criteria. If you could instead just drive around and find essentially the same data, it might lessen that first aspect…