"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.

© "MForum"