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Mobile Crossing announces new GPS for Real Estate Agents
WayPoint Pocket Real Estate Edition
is a complete navigation system, personal organizer and
real estate MLS planning center all-in-one handheld device
SUNNYVALE, CA, (February
2, 2006) - Mobile Crossing and Pocket Real Estate are
teaming up to provide the industry's first GPS navigation
system with functionality designed for Real Estate Agents.
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 to providing driving directions to the
agent, the WayPoint device doubles as a fully featured Windows
Mobile PDA organizer.
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.
The agent can queue up a number of properties at
once and generate driving directions for the complete property
tour. Price, location, bed,
bath and other data from the MLS are provided on the screen.
In addition, complete area maps allows the agent
to quickly zoom out and preview an entire neighborhood before
the client.
Other key 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.
"Mobile Crossing plans to sell this special edition of the
WayPoint directly to interested real estate agents. We are open to offering
the product at lowered introductory prices through real
estate boards," said Calvin Chu, Product Manager for Mobile
Crossing. "The
combined WayPoint and Pocket Real Estate Package offers
customized features not available on any other mobile device.
It is not only an advanced GPS, but it can be used
as an MP3 player, e-Book reader, photo viewer and more without
having to install any software."
"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."
More information about the WayPoint Pocket Real Estate
edition may be found on the Mobile Crossing web site.
Suggested retail price is $799.99. Mobile
Crossing's products are available at retail outlets or on-line
at www.mobilecrossing.com.
About Mobile Crossing
Mobile Crossing, founded in 2004, is a
privately funded Silicon Valley company that develops advanced
Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation devices designed
to meet the mobile travel and navigation needs of people
who desire a navigation system that can be moved from one
vehicle to another or carried for recreational use.
Mobile Crossing is located at 1230 Oakmead
Parkway, Suite 304, Sunnyvale, CA 94085-4028/ Latitude:
37.386635, Longitude: -121.993258. Phone is 408-738-8816.
About Pocket Real Estate
Pocket Real Estate develops software and
solutions for mobile devices, including, Pocket Real Estate
and Pocket Real Estate Wireless, the leading software application
and service to access MLS information on mobile phones and
handheld computers. Pocket Real Estate and Pocket Real Estate
Wireless are compatible with most major MLS systems and
are available to over 500,000 real estate agents throughout
the United States, Canada, the Virgin Islands and Guam.
For more information, visit the company's web site at www.PocketRealEstate.com
Contacts:
Chad Hill/Len Fernandes
(925) 945-7910
(530) 832-1613
hillcomm@earthlink.net
lencom@earthlink.net
Calvin Chu
Mobile Crossing
(408) 738-8816 x102
cchu@mobilecrossing.com
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