Seamless Apartment Search Experience is Now Available to Android Users

CHICAGO, Jan. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Online rental resource leader, Apartments.com, is answering the apartment search needs of Android(TM)-powered phone users nationwide by announcing the launch of its application in Android Market(TM). Android continues to be one of the most preferred platforms in the U.S. with 47 percent of all smartphone users owning an Android-powered phone, according to comScore’s November 2011 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share report. To appeal to the apartment search needs of this rapidly growing audience of smartphone users, Apartments.com is giving Android enthusiasts more ways to find a place to live. By creating instant access to thousands of apartment listings–representing millions of apartments–Android phone owners can now conduct location-based searches in a visually-enhanced media format including walk-though videos, photos, floor plans and GPS directly from the palm of their hand.

“We want to give apartment hunters a variety of search options,” said Chris Brown, VP of product management at Apartments.com. “With mobile devices predicted to overtake PCs for accessing online information in the next year or two, we added the Android app to our mobile product suite to give renters more choices to choose from when conducting their apartment search. Unlike other apartment apps on the market, we designed our app specifically for Android to ensure we deliver the best user experience.”

The Apartments.com Android application key features include: