Stock Quotes Mobile Phones

These days the necessity for you, as an investor, to be able to access stock quotes in real time wherever you happen to be when the markets are in operation is absolutely critical. Fortunately, technology has ridden to your rescue in the form of that ubiquitous device ... the cell phone. Specifically, the smart phone.

Yes, you can watch TV programs and National Football League Games on you smart phones. You can receive and send email, open attachments, listen to music and communicate with the network server in your office. And you can also track your stocks in real time as travel from point a to point b to point c.

No longer do you to rely on getting price quotes using yesterday's technology. Virtually all Blackberry, iPhone, Android, Samsung, LG, Windows Mobile and other smart phones from Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobie, ATT and many smaller, regional cell phone carriers can access real time stock quotes via the telephone's web browser or via a dedicated stock information application built into the phone or available from a third-party developer through emporiums like the iPhone App Store and Google's Android Market.

In addition, the latest generation of phones feature advance push technology which automatically updates the quotes for the companies you are tracking based on stock symbols you have entered in the cell phone's memory. With these phones all you have to do is take them out of your pocket and look at the screen to see a "ticker" with your favorite stocks' prices scrolling by.

E*Trade eTrade Mobile Pro is typical of the services available to people with smart phones (and, in this case, an E*Trade account) in addition to streaming quotes, it allows you to examine your portfolios, transfer funds, update your watch lists, see trend charts, track price changes by market sector and individual companies and otherwise have a lot more fun than available with the simple texting phones that were the height of high-tech just a few short mini-months ago

Non-E*Trade customers can get similar information on their phone from AOL, Google and a bunch of other usual suspects today, with more providers going local every week. It is important to note, however, that not all phones -- not even all so-called smart phones -- and carriers support all stock quote services, so make sure you're getting a plan with the features you want before making an upgrade.