Qualcomm seeks entrants for BREW 2005 Developer Awards

- by Gary Thayer, News Editor

San Diego, Jan. 10, 2005 -- (MobileVillage) -- Qualcomm today announced the open call for submissions for the BREW 2005 Developer Awards.

Interested BREW publishers and developers can enter online at brew2005awards.com). The deadline for online nominations is March 11. Entrants must also provide a demo of their application, which must be received by March 28.

Finalists will be announced on the BREW 2005 Awards Web site on May 9, then winners will be revealed at the awards ceremony hosted during the BREW 2005 Conference, June 1-3, in San Diego.

Qualcomm has added three new categories this year:

* Best Ringtone Application: Nominees are BREW applications that allow
consumers to personalize their mobile phone ringers.

* Most Innovative Use of Technology: Nominees are pre-commercial applications that exhibit a creative, unique and practical use of one or more technologies integrated on Qualcomm's Mobile Station Modem chipset technologies (ncluding: 3D graphics, QSound's Q3D and QXpander, or Qtv and gpsOne) and/or the benefits of high-speed network capabilities such as
CDMA2000 1xEV-DO and WCDMA.

* People's Choice Award: This award was created to give conference attendees the opportunity to vote for their favorite application from the list of finalists across all categories. Submissions will not be accepted for this category.

Other categories include:

• Best Business Application
• Best Location-Based Service Application,
• Best Communications Application
• Best Information Application
• Best Entertainment Application
• Best Game Application.

Entries will be evaluated by an anonymous panel of wireless industry experts from around the world, according to Qualcomm. With the exception of the People's Choice Award, three finalists per award category will be selected based on a points system.

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