Organized by: Pocket PC Magazine ( www.pocketpcmag.com)
The winners were announced: at the San Francisco CITA show, on October 26, 2004, at Pocket PC magazine booth.
The Pocket PC Best Software Awards 2004 was the fourth season of this prestigious competition organized by the American Pocket PC Magazine.
The Pocket PC Magazine has created several categories for software applications intended for Pocket PCs using the Microsoft Mobile platform.
Hundreds of applications from software developers from all over the world were nominated in these categories. The Pocket PC Magazine appointed a jury consisting of 84 members — mainly experts from different areas of the Pocket PC world, such as authors of Pocket PC academic literature, correspondents of the Pocket PC Magazine, of the Microsoft Pocket PC MVPs and employees of the most significant websites devoted to Pocket PC. This jury has then selected one winner in each category, who received the Pocket PC Best Software Award 2004.
The final award ceremony took place during the Francisco CITA international show on October 26, 2004, at the Pocket PC magazine booth.
A total of 11 Pocket PC products manufactured by the Slovak company Resco were nominated in the competition. Six of them became the overall winners in their respective category.
“Resco continues its tradition of producing great Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone software for end users and developers . This year the Pocket PC magazine independent Board of Experts gave six Resco applications prestigious its ‘Best Software Award’, www.PocketPCmag.com/awards.”
Hal Goldstein, Exec Editor/Publisher Pocket PC magazine
“The Pocket PC magazine Best Software Awards is an important event for all mobile software product developers,” said Radomir Vozar, head of the enterprise solutions division. “We are extremely happy, that besides the other categories, this year we were also able to succeed in the category of mobile application developer tools and components.”
This application has all the standard file/folder manipulation features that you need in a file explorer. You can copy or delete files, create folders, search for files or folders, view a file's properties, and sort and filter your listings. Includes the following modules: file encryption, ZIP compression, built-in viewer, network browser, registry editor, and FTP add-in. (Product page)
Gain the ability to write text faster: in addition to the unique system keyboard, there are additional numeric layouts. These include a “writing calculator” for typing numbers or numerical expressions. It also has a special keyboard for fast insertion of frequently used phrases. (Product page)
A set of 2 tools: a battery monitor and a task manager. The battery monitor is a small utility that displays the state of your battery, internal memory, and storage cards. The task manager makes it easy to close your Smartphone applications or switch to any running application. (Product page)
This application has all the standard file/folder manipulation features that you need in a file explorer. You can copy or delete files, create folders, search for files or folders, view a file's properties, and sort and filter your listings. Includes the following modules: file encryption, ZIP compression, built-in viewer, network browser (Product page)
ActiveX grid designed specifically for mobile platforms. Provides the features known from desktop versions. It allows you to leave the first row (column) static while scrolling the others, to adjust column as well as display graphics in the cells.(Product page)
Flexible alternative for ListView and DataGrid controls. Control displays list of data connected rows using defined templates for displaying each row. Written in fully managed code, VS.NET design-time support. (Product page)
Resco s.r.o. is a company developing software for the Microsoft Windows Mobile platform. Up until now the company has sold over 100,000 licenses for its end-user software products, and its products, such as Explorer 2003 and Picture Viewer regularly rank among the best-selling Pocket PC applications worldwide. Besides end-user mobile applications Resco creates also mobile business solutions and developer components for the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework platform. Resco, s.r.o. has its seat in Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
Bi-monthly Pocket PC magazine is a print and multi-digital publication dedicated to users of Windows Mobile PDA’s and Smartphone devices. Each issue includes hardware and software reviews, user profiles, practical tips, plus an “Enterprise Solutions” supplement. Its companion Web site, www.PocketPCmag.com, is updated each day with news, hot downloads, Web sites, reviews, and tips; and also contains archives, a directory of the best Windows Mobile Web sites, and an Encyclopedia of 3000 third-party software and accessories products at http://www.PocketPCmag.com/encyclopedia.asp.