The best app winners of the GetJar "Gettie Awards" were announced last night in San Franciso. All of the mobile software applications winners are very useful. And the winners are:
Best Blackberry app: Kayak Flight/Hotel Search (Free)-
Helps
you compare hundreds of travel sites at once, organize your
itinerary
and track your flights right on the Blackberry.
Best iPhone app Tap Tap Revenge 3 - Helps you get
access
to over 100 free songs and 100 premium bundles of music rhythm
games.
Best Android: Lookout - Helps identify and
block
security threats, backs up and restores a user's personal data,
and can
quickly find a lost or stolen phone by pinpointing its location on
a
Google map or sounding a loud alarm.
Best Windows Mobile app: Opera Mini - Helps you get
a
fast, cost-efficient Web browsing experience with lightning fast
data
loads to your phone.
Best Overall Cross Platform App (Gettie Award): Layar
-
Helps to better understand and enjoy your context by augmenting
your
reality with digital information and immersive experiences.
Best Java app: WaveSecure Backup - Helps keep your
personal data safe by letting you back up or restore your data
securely.
Best Symbian app: Nimbuzz - Helps you get free
calls,
instant messaging, file & location sharing with Nimbuzz
friends and
Skype, Facebook, MSN/Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger,
Google
Talk, AIM/AOL Instant Messenger, MySpace, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, Hyves,
& more.
"What an amazing night - with some of the best developers on the
planet
at the Gettie Awards ceremony," said Patrick Mork, CMO of GetJar.
"It
was an honor for GetJar to host this celebration for the mobile
developers that shape and drive our industry. We could only select
one
winner per platform, but in reality, the room was filled with
winners
based on the sheer creativity and innovation across all the major
development platforms."
Of the apps submitted to the 2010 Getties, iPhone accounted for 26
percent of nominations, Android 20 percent, Java 18 percent,
Symbian 15
percent, Blackberry 13 percent, and Windows Mobile, 9 percent.
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