Obambulate the airwaves with mobile technology

Mobile computing can improve the service you offer your customers. For example, when meeting with customers you could access your customer relationship management system - over the internet - allowing you to update customer details whilst away from the office. Alternatively, you can enable customers to pay for services or goods without having to go to the till. For example, by using a wireless payment terminal diners can pay for their meal without leaving their table.

Whether you are travelling to meetings, out on sales calls, working from a client's site or from home, mobile devices - can help you keep in touch and make the most productive use of your time. You can use a range of devices to stay in touch including laptops, netbooks, personal digital assistants and 'third generation' (3G) smart phones.

Everybody uses smartphones differently, and how they use them determines which platform or phone is the best fit for them. Some folks primarily use smartphones for phone calls, if you can believe that. For those folks the smartphones that don’t do voice calls well, and there are more of those than there should be, don’t qualify as a good fit. It doesn’t matter how fancy a phone/platform may be, if the basic needs of the individual user aren’t being met then they fall short.

While Taiwan and the UK have already seen the release of the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer, the U.S. release has been delayed until the end of April, with supply shortages due to higher than expected demand apparently to blame. With a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 IPS LED back-lit, capacitive multi-touch display, micro SD card slot, front- and rear-facing cameras, USB and HDMI ports, 1GB of RAM and powered by a 1Ghz Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor, the Eee Pad Transformer, which runs Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), is seen by many as the first serious Android challenger to the iPad’s dominance.