Handango has announced the winners of the Handango Champion Awards at the fifth annual Handango Partner Summit, this year held in Miami, Florida.

Judged by a panel of industry experts and media, the Handango Champion Awards were presented for BlackBerry, Palm OS, Symbian UIQ, Symbian Series 60 and Windows Mobile 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.

At the awards ceremony, Handango also recognized six software companies as "Developers of the Year" for their 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 Pocket PC: Developer One, Inc.

Windows Mobile Smartphone: Ilium Software

Sponsored by Microsoft, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and the Microsoft Tablet PC Team, the event was hosted on the Sir Winston yacht.

Each Handango Champion Award recipient will receive a prize package that includes a US$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:

Windows Mobile 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 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

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

Symbian 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

Symbian 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

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