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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Handango Announces Champion Award Winners at Handango Partner Summit
MIAMI, Florida - June 24, 2005 - Last night, 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 OSŪ, 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 and Sony Ericsson, 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 www.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
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
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
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.
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