Handango, one the largest providers of mobile software, today handed out its annual Handango Champion Awards. Winners were chosen for BlackBerry, Palm OS, 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. Handango, which has over 16,000 content partners, also selected seven "Developer of the Year" winners for outstanding software development.
Developers of the Year
BlackBerry: Cerience Corporation
Palm OS: RealDice Inc.
UIQ: DataViz, Inc.
S60: Mobile Systems, Inc
Windows Mobil Pocket PC: Fizz Software Ltd
Windows Mobile Smartphone: Ilium Software
Tablet PC: Agilix Labs, Inc.
Blackberry
Best Application for Work - Best Application for Work - RepliGo Professional by Cerience
Corporation
Best Application for Play - NEXT by Mobigloo
Best Application for Life - VoiceControl by MobileVoiceControl
Best New Application - SplashID by SplashData
Palm OS
Best Application for Work - MobiSystems Office Suite Professional 7 by
Mobile Systems, Inc.
Best Application for Play - Multiplayer Championship Poker Texas
Hold'em by RealDice Inc.
Best Application for Life - Pocket Quicken by Landware
Best New Application - Pocket Quicken by Landware
Best Industry Application - PocketLingo Wall Street Dictionary by
HLCSoft
Symbian UIQ
Best Application for Work - ImageExpo by SysOpen Digia
Best Application for Play - Intelligolf Birdie Edition by Karrier
Communications
Best Application for Life - WorldMate by MobiMate
Best New Application - RoadSync by DataViz
Symbian S60
Best Application for Work - MobiSystems OfficeSuite by Mobile Systems,
Inc.
Best Application for Play - SmartMovie by Lonely Cat Games
Best Application for Life -IM+: Instant Messenger by SHAPE Services
Best New Application - Stuntcar Extreme by Fathammer
Windows Mobile Pocket PC
Best Application for Work - Microsoft Voice Command by Microsoft
Corporation
Best Application for Play - Spb Air Islands by Spb Software House
Best Application for Life - eWallet by Ilium Software
Best New Application - MobiTV for Pocket PC by MobiTV
Best Industry Application - HanDBase Professional Database Manager by
DDH Software
Windows Mobile Smartphone
Best Application for Work - PhatNotes Smartphone by Phatware
Best Application for Play - Pocket Streamer by e-mobile software
Best Application for Life - SmartVideo by SmartVideo
Best New Application - WeatherBug Mobile by WeatherBug
Winners 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 other promotional opportunities. Software was nominated by Handango customers and judged by a panel of industry experts and media.
