IPhone, Gphone, E.T. phone home

Google this week poses the question in its blog: "What would your phone do?"

With an expanding list of features on cutting-edge mobile devices and a growing population of tech-advanced mobile users, what features are on the wish list for real estate professionals?

Phones are increasingly all-in-one multi-media communications portals, with users creating, viewing and sharing text messages, e-mails, photos and videos. With Google's news this week about an "Open Handset Alliance" to create a standard mobile software platform and prod the industry toward a faster pace of innovation, the incessant buzz of the iPhone, and the real estate industry's increasing reliance on mobile tools (see Inman News series), you can expect to see more real estate-relevant applications that fit snugly in the palm of your hand.

So what's missing for real estate professionals? What mobile innovations do you expect to see for the industry and which ones do you think will stick?

Let us know where you think the mobile market is boldly going.

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