14 DAY TRIAL // Nokia announced the winners of its 2006 Forum Nokia PRO Awards, event that is meant to recognize leading mobile applications, content and services that were successfully developed by over 400 member companies of Nokia's advanced global developer program. Winners were selected by an independent panel of mobile industry experts, analysts and journalists from over 100 contest entries.
Winners of Nokia's Forum Pro Awards for 2006 include:
Best Game Application: The Silhouette Game - Telecogames, U.K., a simple, elegant and fun game that allows the players to rotate and match objects to achieve a high score.
Best Enterprise Application: ColorCAM - ColorZip SEA Pte. Ltd., Singapore, an analog and digital code reader application that allows camera phones to function as a scanner and digital reader.
Best Imaging Application: WOWPix - Reallusion Inc., U.S, an application that allows the animation of still photos, that can be used in standby mode, Caller ID or use as an alarm or timer, as well as complete imaging and camera functionality.
Best Music Application: Orange TV (MobiTV/MobiRadio) - Idetic, U.S, which provides smartphone users with up to 50 music channels, news, entertainment and sports TV programming.
Best Productivity Application: SNAPin Self Service - SNAPin Software, U.S, an application that provides users with interactive, context sensitive assistance through an on-device SelfService Guide, thus helping mobile workers easily understand and maximize the capabilities of their own smartphones.
Best Branded Content Application : ShoZu - Cognima Ltd., U.K. , a service that gives smartphone users single-source access to a broad choice of branded and non-branded content from a variety of web communities.
The "Developer of the Year" title was awarded to global mobile solutions company, Refresh Mobile Ltd., for the development of its Mobizines application, while SNAPin Software Inc. was chosen "Innovator of the Year" for its SNAPin SelfService product suite. The 2006 award winners in the 6 application categories, as well as the "Developer of the Year" and "Innovator of the Year", each received a Forum Nokia one-year free membership, valued at $5,000 along with a dedicated company information page on Forum Nokia's public website.