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Handango Announces Champion Award Winners at Handango Partner Summit Monday, June 27 2005
MIAMI, Florida - June 24, 2005 - Handango, the leading provider of mobile downloads, announced the winners of the Handango Champion Awards at the fifth annual Handango Partner Summit. Judged by a panel of industry experts and media, the Handango Champion Awards were presented for BlackBerry(TM), Palm OS(R), UIQ, Series 60 and Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC and Smartphone applications in the following categories: Best Application for Work, Best Application for Play, Best Application for Life, Best New Application and Best Industry Application. A complete list of winners is available at http://www.handango.com/Awards/2005Winners.jsp.
At the awards ceremony, Handango also recognized six software companies as "Developers of the Year" for their outstanding software development, committed customer care and forward-thinking innovation. The winners of the Developer of the Year awards are:
- BlackBerry: Terratial Technologies
- Palm OS: Chapura
- UIQ: EPOCWARE
- Series 60: Mobile Digital Media
- Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC: Developer One, Inc.
- Windows Mobile-based Smartphone: Ilium Software
Sponsored by Microsoft, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and the Microsoft Tablet PC Team, the event was hosted on the luxurious Sir Winston yacht. While watching the Miami city lights in the dusk and the setting sun over Biscayne Bay, participants started the evening with an elegant dinner followed by an entertaining awards presentation.
"I would like to congratulate this year's Champion Award winners and applaud their successes," said Randy Eisenman, president and chief executive officer of Handango. "The title 'Handango Champion Award Winner' is quite an honor, as finalists and winners are nominated by customers and chosen by some of the best minds in the mobile content industry."
Each Handango Champion Award recipient will receive a prize package that includes a $5,000 marketing stipend, placement in a special edition of the Handango Champion Newsletter and a variety of additional promotional opportunities.
The Handango Champion Award winners are:
Blackberry
- Best Application for Work - Mail2Fax by software-for-blackberry.com
- Best Application for Play - Ring Tone Megaplex by Terratial Technologies
- Best Application for Life - WorldMate by MobiMate
- Best New Application - eSpell by DynoPlex
Palm OS
- Best Application for Work - SnapperMail Premier Bundle by Snapperfish
- Best Application for Play - Pocket Tunes Deluxe by NormSoft
- Best Application for Life - VeriChat by PDAapps
- Best New Application - SplashBlog by SplashData
- Best Industry Application - Davis's Drug Guide by Unbound Medicine
UIQ
- Best Application for Work - Handy Day 2005 by EPOCWARE
- Best Application for Play - Aces Texas Hold'em - No Limit by Concrete Software
- Best Application for Life - eZiTap FEP by Zi Corporation
- Best New Application - Wayfinder Navigator by Wayfinder Systems
Series 60
- Best Application for Work - Quickoffice Premier by Mobile Digital Media
- Best Application for Play - SKY FORCE by Infinite Dreams
- Best Application for Life - IM+: Instant Messenger by SHAPE Services
- Best New Application - Stuntcar Extreme by Fathammer
Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC
- Best Application for Work - Pocket Informant 2005 by WebIS
- Best Application for Play - Fish Tycoon by LDW Software
- Best Application for Life - Spb Pocket Plus by Spb Software House
- Best New Application - CodeWallet Pro 2005 by Developer One
- Best Industry Application - MobiLearn Talking Phrasebook by MobiLearn
Windows Mobile-based Smartphone
- Best Application for Work - Papyrus by SBSH
- Best Application for Play - Legacy by Redshift
- Best Application for Life - Fizz Traveller by Fizz Software
- Best New Application - Jeyo Mobile Extender by Jeyo
- Best Industry Application - NewsBreak by Ilium Software
This year's winners were chosen by a panel of industry experts and media that include:
- Ewan Spence, All About Symbian
- Chris Leckness, Aximsite
- Ronny Ko, Bityard Magazine
- Phea Duch, Blackberry Cool
- William O'Neal, CNET
- Christiane Hornig, connect.de
- Michael Sommer, Gadget Guy
- David Novak, Gadget Guy
- Laura Nuhaan, International BlackBerry User Group
- Corey McLaughlin, Mobile Minds Media
- Sandra Vogel, Mobility Specialist
- Chris Brunskill, MoDaCo
- Michal Jerz, My-Symbian
- Ryan Kairer, Palm Infocenter
- Mark Needham, PC Pro
- Jen Edwards, PocketGoddess.com
- Colin Gibbs, RCR Wireless
- Mike Temporale, Smartphone Thoughts
- Richard Bloor, SymbianOne.com
- Carlo Longino, TheFeature
- Justin Ried, TheFeature
- Julie Strietelmeier, The-Gadgeteer.com
- Judie Hughes, The-Gadgeteer.com
- Andrew Carton, Treonauts
- Bridget Meagher, WhatLaptop
- Phil Lattimore, What Cellphone
About Handango
Handango is the leading provider of mobile downloads bringing over 50,000 applications and 25,000 digital media titles to market through an extensive global distribution network that reaches millions of mobile customers. Handango's application management and provisioning platform, Handango AMPP, has been chosen as the mobile software delivery platform for Nokia, Motorola, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile, Orange SA, Sony Ericsson, palmOne, Microsoft, HP, Sega Mobile, AOL and more than 100 others. For more information, visit http://corp.handango.com.
Source: Handango
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