Smartphones can make businesses run faster, cheaper and more profitably. Here are a few high-impact ways that smartphones can make a difference in your company:
Check Email Anywhere
Emails sometimes need to be answered immediately. Smartphones allows you to do that from anywhere. They also allow you to shoot off quick emails from anywhere.
Video and International Calls
Applications such as Skype allow you to have video calls and conferences for free. While you might not always have a laptop with you, if you have a smartphone with a camera, you can participate from anywhere. In addition, you will also be able to make inexpensive international calls right from your smartphone. If you have Skype on your smartphone, calling India could cost you just a few cents a minute.
Get Up-to-Date News
The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Economist and National Public Radio (NPR) all have highly rated applications available for download. These applications will download the most recent or most popular stories of the day right to your smartphone. You can then read the news stories at any time and from anywhere.
It is cumbersome to carry around copies of publications wherever you go, but if you have it on your Android anyway, you will be able to catch up on what is going on in the world at any time.
Check Industry News with RSS Readers
If you want to stay on top of the latest developments in your industry, what kind of new technologies are emerging, who is going public, who is struggling for funding, and where new business opportunities are emerging, you can stay up to date on all of this by having a great RSS reader right on your smartphone. The RSS reader will download all the articles from your RSS feeds onto your phone, so you can read them from any location.
Expense Tracking
Instead of tracking your expenses by hand, you can track them using your smartphone. There are dozens of different expense tracking applications from which to choose. Instead of having to write your expenses in a notebook or tally up receipts at the end of the day, all you need to do is take a few seconds any time you make a purchase to punch the expense into your expense tracker.
As you can tell, smartphones can make life a lot easier in business. It can save you time, help you stay up to date, and even help you appear more professional.
