Stores are coming to us and saying “we want apps!” But should those apps all be customized native apps, or is the growing library of “legacy apps” –that’s an interesting term!” sufficient for growing numbers of these? John Jantsch, The Duct-Tape Marketer, says to reexamine FourSquare http://bit.ly/nUCBvT, particularly by piggybacking on popular businesses in your [...]
Posts under ‘Cell Phone’
Smartphone Apps and the “New Workflow”
My cell phone usage for work was so much less in the past. Today, the app explosion for smartphones has rendered these portable little gizmos computers in their own right. Whether it’s an iPhone, Blackberry, or Android-based device, there are apps available for nearly everything I used to only be able to do from a [...]
Dropkicking Touchdown Off the Droid Incredible
Touchdown has provided fantastic email functionality on the Droid, but after three months, we’re only now realizing how much its failure to integrate with the resident Contact app has held us back. We originally got Touchdown because it would allow us to sync with as many Exchange email folders as we wanted, whereas the resident [...]
The Verdict On HTC Imagio
It is really good — definitely a keeper. It’s hard to figure out–quite a steep learning curve, and I think I still only know about 40% of it. It’s like having an alien artifact: you never quite know when it will start to pulsate or emit bolts of lighting or something. The breakthrough, though, was [...]
High Hopes for the HTC Imagio
This new smartphone just arrived yesterday, and Matthew and I have been working to set it up. After 5.5 hours, it’s mostly–but not fully–syncing to the desktop, and we still can’t get it to sync to the HP netbook. It seems to be feature-rich and well designed, but it’s browsing is slow and error-prone, asking [...]
Need to take a note? Jott and reQall to the rescue!
Have you ever been running errands downtown and needed to remember something for later, or had your latest business brainstorm? But, you didn’t have a pen and paper! Jott and reQall are services that allow you to make a call from your cell phone and record a message. This message is then transcribed to text [...]
