MicroMLS, Inc. has developed software for delivering real-estate listings on any modern Microsoft PocketPC device. There are over one million active real estate agents in the United States, and they are breaking records on the number of homes sold. They predominantly use a combination of desktop and web access to databases containing property listings. In the field, they rely on computer printouts, "multiple listing books", and less often laptop computers. Several recent factors now allow an impressive new solution to the old problem:

• PDAs have increased in power from slow, black and white, limited memory, organizers for contacts to powerful, full fledged computers with advanced database capabilities. PDAs have more power now, than desktops had in 1998, and a multi-million dollar Cray-1 a decade earlier).
• Powerful PDAs have dropped in price from over $800, to less than $300
• Storage cards have rapidly increased in size, while decreasing in price. A 256MB SD memory card can be purchased for around $75. This gives PocketPCs the ability to store thousands of pictures for less than 1 cent per picture. Earlier devices could not store pictures at all.
• Transflective screens have made full color high-resolution pictures viewable even in bright sun.
• Broadband access is available in most offices and homes, so with careful programming synchronization is as easy as dropping your PocketPC into the cradle.
• Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS) is gaining momentum. This National Association of Realtors (NAR) standard means easy and standardized access to listing data. MicroMLS on a PocketPC is perfect for use by Realtors because it is:
• Instant On
• Very portable, weighing about 4 ounces
• Easy to use by even non-technical users
• Allow rapid searches by price, area, address, remarks, etc.
• Just drop it into the cradle to synchronize data and pictures
• Updated 4 times a day or more, so data is always up to date

MicroMLS, Inc. is a technology leader in delivering powerful, easy to use applications for the real estate industry on the PocketPC platform.