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Featured in Directions Magazine
Silicon Valley Limousine Drivers
Know Their Way Around
May 2, 2006

"In the chauffeuring industry, knowing the fastest and safest routes through traffic is essential if you want to stay in business, particularly when your major clientele are Silicon Valley corporate executives for whom time is money."

"Sunnyvale, California-based Sal’s Limousine has found a way to give its customers the best possible trip experience. This year the company installed a combination GPS/PDA navigation system in its luxury limos. Not only do these portable navigation systems help drivers easily locate and navigate to a customer’s destination, they also serve as organizers and entertainment devices for the drivers during wait times."

"The last thing a busy executive wants is to have his chauffeur ask him a lot of questions, such as where he wants to go and how to get there. At Sal’s Limousine, the clientele don’t have to tell the driver anything. The driver already knows the destination and exactly how to get there, thanks to the WayPoint portable navigation system, which is both a GPS and PDA. The WayPoint is manufactured by Mobile Crossing."

Directions Magazine

Featured in RISMedia Trends
GPS—with a Real Estate Twist
March, 2006

"Mobile Crossing and Pocket Real Estate are teaming up to provide the industry’s first GPS navigation system functionality designed for real estate agents. Combined with technology from Pocket Real Estate, Mobile Crossing’s new WayPoint Pocket Real Estate Edition combines turn-by-turn spoken directions with complete database access to the agent’s multiple listing service out of the box."

"The WayPoint device also doubles as a fully featured Windows Mobile PDA organizer and includes built-in mortgage, loan, home equity, loan balance, rent-versus-own analysis and loan amortization calculators"

RISMedia Trends

Featured in Inman News
Mapping where you need it most: On the road
February 22, 2006

"Mobile Crossing and Pocket Real Estate this month formed a partnership that will provide a GPS navigation system with added functionality specifically for real estate agents. And ESRI teamed up with Baynet in January to add optimized routing map functionality to Baynet's wireless PocketMLS real estate service. Smarter Agent, which uses location-based technology to send consumers information about houses they are standing in front of, also has mapping functions."

"The real estate edition includes built-in mortgage, loan, home equity, loan balance, rent-versus-own analysis and loan amortization calculators. A new quick search function can locate properties by MLS number or address, and price, location, bedrooms, bathrooms and other data from the MLS are provided on the screen."

"Agents can use it to check real-time weather and traffic. "That comes built in for one year," Chu said. "Depending on the city you live in it will show traffic reports with a picture of all the highways that have sensors" to show blockage."

Inman News

Featured in Inman News
Mobile GPS device tailored to real estate agents
February 02, 2006

"Thanks to technology from Pocket Real Estate, Mobile Crossing's new WayPoint Pocket Real Estate Edition combines turn-by-turn spoken directions with complete database access to the agent's multiple listing service out-of-the-box."

"In addition, area maps allow agents to quickly zoom out and preview an entire neighborhood before the client."

"Other real estate capabilities of the WayPoint Pocket Real Estate edition include market statistics, hot sheets, contact management and advanced prospect/client profiling. All the functionality that normally comes with the latest edition of the WayPoint remains accessible, including real time weather and traffic, access to the national maps and the ability to hold entire regions of the United States onboard without any additional memory cards."

Inman News

Featured in PDA Today
Mobile Crossing announces new GPS
for Real Estate Agents
February 02, 2006

"Mobile Crossing and Pocket Real Estate are teaming up to provide a GPS navigation system with functionality designed for Real Estate Agents using technology from Pocket Real Estate."

"This new edition of the WayPoint includes built-in mortgage, loan, home equity, loan balance, rent-versus-own analysis, and loan amortization calculators. The new QuickSearch function can locate properties by MLS number or address."

"I have seen other attempts at creating a mobile real-estate agent tool with GPS, but this really looks like it bordering on nirvana."

PDA Today





Featured in CNET News
GPS Lost and Found
December 18, 2005

"The WayPoint 200 National Edition gives step-by-step directions and has flash memory capacity large enough to hold all U.S. maps."

CNET News

Featured in The New York Times
Getting Around, Made Easier
December 15, 2005

"Mobile Crossing, offers hand-held devices that integrate G.P.S. abilities into Pocket PC personal organizers."

"The $750 WayPoint 200 National Edition from Mobile Crossing, for example, instead uses the much larger screen of a personal organizer, offers turn-by-turn directions and has enough flash memory for all United States maps."

The New York Times

Featured in AutoWeek®
Gift Guide 2005
November 21, 2005

"Mobile Crossing's WayPoint 200 navigation unit is a portable, easy-to-use GPS device combined with a personal digital assistant." The unit includes mapping capabilities along with a Bluetooth interface."

AutoWeek Magazine

Featured in Road and Track ® Road Gear Magazine™ October/November 2005

"Not only does it deliver real-time, one-touch traffic and weather reports, but it also offers spoken directions to keep you focused on driving. All maps are preloaded, so the WayPoint is ready to go out of the box."

Road Gear Magazine




"Real-time traffic — the potential 'home run' feature for navigation — is gaining support from suppliers and beginning to migrate into the more popular portable models."

"Finally, Mobile Crossing, Sunnyvale, Calif., is offering a PDA/handheld, with car kit, that can combine with a Bluetooth-enabled cellular phone to offer real-time traffic data in 20 markets, as well as weather updates. Mobile Crossing performs its own aggregation of traffic data in a service it calls TrafficWatch and partners with The Weather Underground, Ann Arbor, Mich., for weather updates."

Real-Time Traffic Goes Portable




"Affordable GPS Pocket PC, with complete U.S. maps and real-time traffic and weather, plus navigation software. Regions may be loaded over the Internet easily. Features spoken directions, up to 8-hours of battery life, millions of POIs, a car kit and all necessary accessories in the box."

The most comprehensive software package ever offered for the Pocket PC
August 2005

"The WayPoint 200 is our newest and very powerful GPS PDA. It comes in a sleek Blue finish and a complete car kit designed to look good in your car. It features a complete set of maps and points of interest customized to your geographical region. The WayPoint 200 features a SiRF powered GPS chip providing you the fastest, most accurate navigation service."

Mobile Crossing Releases WayPoint 200
Portable Navigation System
July 28, 2005





"Mobile Crossing has begun shipping the WayPoint 200, a GPS navigation system based on Windows Mobile Pocket PC platform that helps drivers find and reach their destination, and includes traffic and weather reports and numerous other features."

Mobile Crossing ships WayPoint 200
Pocket PC Portable Navigation System
July 27, 2005

WayPoint™ Reviews

“Waypoint 200 Gives Direction. In addition to being a full-featured PDA, the WayPoint 200 will help get you where you need to be. The GPS navigation device is loaded with maps and points of interest customized to the user's geographical region. Additional maps can be downloaded from Mobile Crossing's web site. The device comes with a car kit to securely mount it in a vehicle. It provides fast access to favorite places and can automatically plot a course to any location or around traffic. Users can also record voice memos while driving. The unit comes with an AC charger and a DC charger for automotive use.”

WayPoint Navigation
March 14, 2006






“The WayPoint Pocket Real Estate edition literally changes the way real estate is conducted because it gives agents an incredible competitive advantage having MLS listings in their pocket updated daily,” said Erick Kaneshige, President of Pocket Real Estate. “The system puts the agent in control. It gives them the ability to answer client’s questions immediately and to complete those ‘to-do’ items now instead of adding them to a ‘to-do’ list to be completed later.”

WayPoint Pocket Real Estate
December 2005

"Mobile Crossing already had one of the best handheld GPS Navigation systems available (it is based on a handheld computer), but they recently showed significant upgrades to its WayPoint 100 and WayPoint 200 navigation systems including national maps and numerous new software features, improved user interface, increased performance and upgraded safety features to an already fine product."

Thanks to performance improvements, the new WayPoints can open, use and search much larger regions of the country than before. The increase in performance makes possible real-time proximity alerts. Proximity alerts are pop up messages that notify you of nearby points of interest such as gas stations and tourist sites. Another safety improvement includes a new text-to-speech module that reads street names aloud...all of this in a small pocket PC."

Mobile Crossing's Advanced WayPoint GPS Navigation Systems
November 2005

..."It was clear to me the moment I opened the box that the developers of this product tried hard to offer a user friendly and complete mobile GPS solution."

"Mobile Crossing has done a superb job of making the Waypoint 200 unit easy to use right out of the box...... The way this baby jump-starts and hooks right up to Bluetooth and the satellites to get you going is a marvel."

Handheld Computing Magazine - ( B+ Score)
November 2005

"We were impressed by the WayPoint 200's solid performance and accuracy as a navigation device--it's a pretty respectable PDA."

"Strong receiver; accurate directions; outstanding battery life; bright screen; complimentary one-year subscription to traffic and weather services; vehicle mount and other accessories included."

"We took the WayPoint 200 for a test-drive in the San Francisco area, and on the whole, the news is good. Using the included CompactFlash Bluetooth card, the device had no problem locating and pairing with the Bluetooth GPS receiver. The device locked on to the required satellites within 45 seconds from a cold start and 30 seconds or less on subsequent tries--overall, we were truly impressed by the strength of the receiver. We never lost a signal, even as we drove through a downtown area heavily populated by skyscrapers, but it wasn't powerful enough to survive a trip through a tunnel."

CNET Editor's Take on Mobile Crossing WayPoint 200
July 21, 2005




Mobile Crossing Bluetooth GPS Reviews


 


"Over 80 experts judged the Pocket PC magazine and awarded the Mobile Crossing Bluetooth GPS for navigation category as one of the Best Software Awards in 2004"

From the Judges of the Pocket PC magazine - Best Software Awards 2004
May, 2005

""In the box came a completely all-inclusive package with a rechargeable GPS receiver that was of a manageable size, an AC adapter, a DC adapter, a CD with drivers for a Laptop or PC, and two versions of Mapopolis GPS navigation software."

"The Mobile Crossing GPS is simply the finest Bluetooth GPS I have used. It is accurate, easy to set up - easy to pair with the PDA and the battery life is great - almost eight hours in my tests. I would highly endorse this device if you use the Lifedrive, Tungsten or other Pocket PC Bluetooth PDA."

Mobile Crossing Bluetooth GPS
August 4, 2005