Review: Keynote Remote iPhone App Revisited

About 4 months ago, I gave my quick review of the Keynote Remote app for iPhone. I do a lot of presentations during meetings with clients. Once I enter that meeting room, I want to be able to get everything set up in the shortest amount of time possible. So for those situations, I prefer to stick with the Front Row remote rather than the Keynote Remote app for iPhone, which requires me to pair it up.

Recently though, I had a chance to use it at an internal meeting where I had time before hand to pair the computer with the iPhone app.

Surprised reaction to using iPhone to control presentations
So the meeting started, and I navigated to the next slide with a swipe on my iPhone, and my boss asked, "You can do that?" So, apparently, it seems that using your iPhone or touch to control presentations is a pretty neat and cool thing.

Portrait mode in Kyenote Remote iPhone app rocks!
Since the slide shows up on the iPhone, there's no need to look at the presentation screen. That's great, but even better is to have your notes available to you when the app is in portrait mode.

Tip on using notes on Keynote Remote
Although you can put a bunch of notes and memo for each slide, but I don't recommend that. Besides, the screen real estate on your iPhone isn't very big and navigating through lots of text isn't very practical during a presentation. Instead, I recommend putting down the key message of the slide. Every slide has a purpose and a message to deliver.

So every time when I move to a new slide, I get reminded exactly what I need to convey with the slide by the app. Very very nice.


So, if you do presentations where you have ample time to set up the equipment beforehand, this app is a gem for doing presentations.