Posted: February 23, 2007

Sprint and Smarter Agent have recently teamed up with Apartments.com to provide rental property information straight to your phone based on its GPS capabilities. Although the service sounds impressive, when compared with Cellit’s House4Cell technology, it leaves something to be desired.

1. To utilize the service, the end user must have Sprint as their carrier and use a GPS enabled phone. House4Cell works on virtually all handsets and with all the major wireless carriers.

2. The end user must pay $2.99 a month , on top of regular text messaging charges, to access the new service. House4Cell is paid for by the realtor and costs the consumer nothing extra.

3. House4Cell is designed to adapt to whatever phone the information is being sent to. The Sprint service requires users to download a mobile application from their website and install it on their device, a process which many users find confusing and frustrating.

4. House4Cell automatically captures information about the prospective renter or buyer, thus creating valuable leads for the Realtor; Sprint’s service does not.

While it is exciting to see that interest in mobile realty services has become prevalent enough to intice industry heavyweights such as Sprint and Apartments.com to come aboard, House4Cell remains the superior solution for mobile rental information, both for realtors and consumers.

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