This Southern Maryland Realtor is Not SHY to say WHY I will wait (breathlessly) at the gate for a NEW iPhone...The Contact Manager Program I have used for decades is called Agent Office. Ownership shifted from Fidelity to Emphasys a while back and there has been no upgrade from Version Ten in a long, long, years-long while which feels like an eternity for technology. I also use Top Producer lightly. I LOVE their CMA program and their 24/7 website and their action plans and their Market Snapshot and anyway I am considering doing a swap in this balance because of the iPhone. It was really difficult to make the Quicken to Quickbooks transition this year. So this is nothing I take lightly. Add another factor in the mix..,Quickbooks Online has an iPhone application and even though there is a monthly fee, the calls and the upgrades are free as can be. Talk about influencing the decision.
Not SHY to say WHY I will wait (breathlessly) at the gate for a NEW iPhone...If you use these two Contact Management products the old iPhone is the only device that works easily for both. Old, as in antique. I am a tech junkie. I am on the front line when a new device comes out for work. I love to get them up and running despite all the ranting Riley Rover hears but never reveals because it just plain fascinates me. So to have the free upgrade waiting at Verizon for two years is unheard of for someone like me. This old technology means SLOW push driven emails to avoid the convoluted synch process with Agent Office and a Blackberry. This means no Droid either since neither Contact Manager system supports the Droid or the iPhone now for that matter.
Not SHY to say WHY I will wait (breathlessly) at the gate for a NEW iPhone...But I am hearing rumblings. Like maybe Top Producer is coming out with an Iphone application. And that maybe Verizon is going to get the iPhone. Verizon is the only service that works well in Southern Maryland when your livelihood is related to the phone. So as a Realtor, it has been a frustrating stuck in the mud situation with all these parameters.
I am hearing enough rumbling on blogs and in conversations that I think there is HUGE hope on the Southern Maryland Realtor horizon. Enough hope that I went to the iPhone website and drooled this morning. Here are all the features that make me do mental cartwheels ( the real ones would hurt) about the thought of getting one..click here. The article is called up to Speed on Day One. Pull versus pull email, GPS, maps, voice memos, voice activation, conference calls, multiple SMS, cool apps, cool business tools like cut and paste or pdf reader and, of course. speed. Yep, I can act like a fool about what a change this will make after being stuck in the mud with old technology this long on the old version Palm phone. I forgot to mention that the new Palm models do not work with the two Premiere Contact Manager programs either. Stuck in concrete is not neat when you think NEW technology is tough to beat.
I am rooting for Top Producer to get the iPhone application, Verizon to get the iPhone, and me to get all the cool new technology (4G??) that this entails. Is the Droid on the Top Producer horizon...I hear they were simply flooded with iPhone requests so this may be the direction they took. Is Verizon launching the iPhone in Southern Maryland..I sure hope so. It's enough to make me change decades of the same Contact Manager program and move over to Top Producer as the mainstay to get all this new technology working. And fresh off an Easter Computer crash, this makes all the more sense to me.
There was the year of the iPod. Then the year of the Kindle. Then the year of the Scansnap. I hope this is the year of the iPhone. Those devices made a big difference. Let's hope Cheryl can do Cartwheels this year in Southern Maryland. No, the real ones were for the Cheer leading days. Anyway, in the meantime, anyone "Got Apps?" I'd like to keep a list of iPhone business apps so I am getting ready. I did find this list of business apps, but what are your favorites? It's the power of positive thinking. Even Riley Rover has his paws crossed for me on this one. You see, I can pull out the GPS and find the closest Pet Smart between appointments.
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