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21st July 2004 - Zi Corporation, a leading provider
of intelligent interface solutions, today announced
that its eZiTap™ Front End Processor (FEP) predictive
text technology has been named the “Best Productivity
Application” for the Symbian OS (Operating System)
by Handango, the leading provider of mobile downloads,
in the 2004 Handango Champion Awards. Judged by members
of the media and other industry experts, the Awards
honor the best in mobile software.
“The Handango Champion Awards are designed to
recognize exceptional mobile applications developed
by outstanding companies, such as Zi Corporation,”
said Clint Patterson, vice president of marketing of
Handango. “With the help of our elite panel of
judges, we are pleased to honor Zi and the other winners
for their accomplishments.”
Zi Corporation President and CEO Michael D. Donnell
said, “Being selected for the Handango Champion
Award is a strong third-party endorsement of the quality
and usability of Zi’s technology and a testament
to the excellence and talent of those that worked on
the eZiTap development.”
The award judges, representing a selection of publications
with focuses on reviewing devices and applications in
the PDA, smart phone and wireless spaces, selected eZiTap
from a list of award finalists that were chosen from
thousands of applications which are sold through Handango’s
website and its more than 100 mobile download portals.
Award finalists, which were announced on May 13, 2004,
were chosen by customer votes and expert nominations.
The winners were determined by a panel of industry luminaries
including representatives from Laptop Magazine, SymbianOne,
PhoneScoop, RCR Wireless, PocketGoddess, USA Today/Gannett
News, The Wireless Developer Network, Network Computing,
The Gadgeteer, My-Symbian, Palm Infocenter, Bityard
Magazine, TheFeature, PDAStreet, Wireless Gaming Review,
KGO AM810, Network World, Smartphone Thoughts and Java
World.
Handango announced the winners of the Handango Champion
Awards at the Handango Partner Summit on June 24, 2004.
Awards were presented for applications running on Symbian
OS™, Palm OS®, Windows Mobile™-based Pocket
PC, Java™, Windows Mobile-based Smartphone and
Linux devices. A complete list of winners is available
at www.handango.com/Awards/ChampionAwards.jsp.
The eZiTap FEP is a downloadable version of the eZiTap
software and serves as a front end processor to offer
predictive text entry through the phone’s virtual
keyboard. The download version is available for Sony
Ericsson’s series of P800 and P900 smart phones,
and was introduced to the market in October 2003 through
Handango.com.
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