Pocket PC Software Award Winners Announced

Pocket PC magazine has announced the winners of its annual Pocket PC Awards, which honor the best software available for the platform. This year, 436 software titles were nominated, 158 were selected as finalists, and 57 emerged as winners. The finalists and winners were selected by a Board of Experts made up of some of the most respected and knowledgeable people in the Pocket PC community.

There are nine major categories which are divided into 57 sub-categories.

• Communication
• Phone and Fax — Running Voice GSM
• Synchronization — Intellisync
• Games
• Action Games — Snails
• Board Games — Awele
• Card Games — Championship Hearts
• Casino Games — Full Hand Casino
• Game Emulators — Mame CE3
• Puzzle Games — Slurp
• Role Playing Games — Ultima Underworld
• Simulations — SimCity 2000
• Sports — Tennis Addict
• Strategy Games — Lemonade Inc.
• Information Managers
• Database — HanDBase Plus
• Finance — Cash Organizer 2002 Deluxe
• List Managers — ListPro
• PIMs — Agenda Fusion
• Secure Information Managers — CodeWallet Pro
• Sporting — Golfwits Pro
• Internet
• Browsers and Web Utilities — MultiIE
• Chat and Messaging — Pocket Chat
• News Readers– Ink Spot CE
• Terminals — Zterm
• Multimedia
• Audio — RealOne Player for Mobile Devices
• Graphic Design/Drawing — IA Screen Shot
• Image Management — Resco Picture Viewer
• Music Composition — PocketDrums
• Power Point and Presentation — Pocket Slides
• Video — PocketTV
• Personal
• Dining– Pocket Cook
• Health and Fitness — Pocket Diet Tracker
• Text and Reference
• Bible Software — PocketBible
• Dictionaries — Lextionary
• e-Book Readers — Palm Reader Pro
• Thesauruses — TrueTerm Thesaurus
• Travel
• Guides — Vindigo
• Info Managers — Traveller
• Language and Culture — OutLoud! Phrasebooks
• Maps and Directions — Mapopolis
• Time — CityTime
• Utilities
• Calculator — CoolCalc
• Document Viewers — ClearVue Suite
• File management — Resco File Explorer
• Handwriting/Input — CalliGrapher
• Networking — sonicadmin
• Notes — HPC Notes Professional Edition
• Remote Control — TV remote controller
• Remote Host Control — Pocket Controller-Professional
• Screen Capture — Pocket ScreenSnap
• Screen Display — Nyditot Virtual Display
• Security — F-Secure FileCrypto
• Speech — Dragon PDsay
• System and Registry — PHM Registry Editor
• Task Management — Wisbar
• Theme Creation/Management — ThemeMaker
• Time and Expenses — TimeTTracker
• Today-screen Plug-in — Animated Today 2002
• Unit Conversion — Conversions In Hand

In addition, the magazine awarded its 2002 Pocket PC Community Outstanding Achievement Awards, given to individuals and their organizations whose extraordinary contributions benefits the entire Pocket PC Community. This year’s winners were Ed Hansberry as the outstanding MVP, Cindy Box and the HP Smart Handhelds team for their work on the iPAQ, Beth Goza of Microsoft “for her tireless work evangelizing the platform”, and Mark Winstanley and John Tidwell for organizing the Pocket PC Summit.