CTIA Wireless 2006 picks best of show products

April 7, 2006 -- (MobileVillage) -- The Wireless Association yesterday announced the winners of its Wireless Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards and the Technology Marketing Awards at the CTIA Wireless 2006 Convention taking place this week at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

According to CTIA, Nearly 200 applications were submitted and judged on innovation, functionality, technological importance, implementation and overall "wow" factor. Best in Show, as voted upon by CTIA Wireless 2006 attendees, went to Samsung for the Samsung T509 camera phone. The other E-Tech Award winners are as follows:

Category: Consumer Application - Healthcare/Public Safety/Transportation
1st place - Google for Google Local
2nd place - NAVIGON, Inc for Mobile Navigator 5.3 PNA Transonic 5000
3rd place - Telecommunications Systems (TCS) for Rand McNally
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Category: Consumer Application - Messaging (SMS/MMS)
1st place - MobileLime for Mobile Wallet from MobileLime(R)
2nd place - OZ for OZ Mobile Email Solution
3rd place - 724 Solutions for 724 Solutions Thulean
Category: Consumer Application - Mobile Entertainment Application
1st place - Cognima for the SHOZU
2nd place - InfoSpace for the MEdiaNet 3.0
3rd place - Motricity/Action Engine/NellyMoser for Motricity's Fuel Client Platform - Content AP1
Honorable Mention - Motorola Inc. Connected Home Solutions for Motorola iRadio(R)
Category: Hardware - Mobile Accessory
1st place - Jabra for Jabra JX10
2nd place - Eastman Kodak Company/Kodak EasyShare Gallery for KODAK Picture Kiosk G4
3rd place - Advanced Wireless Solutions, LLC for Backup-Pal
Category: Hardware - Mobile Phone/Camera Phone
1st place - Motorola Inc. for Motorola SLVR L7
2nd place - Samsung for Samsung t709
3rd place - GreatCall, Inc. for JitterbugDial(TM)
Honorable Mention - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications for the Sony Ericsson W810 Walkman(R) Phone
Category: Hardware - Smartphone/PDA
1st place - Palm, Inc. for Palm(R) Treo 700w smartphone
2nd place - Samsung for Samsung i830
3rd place - Samsung for Samsung t719
Honorable Mention - Pharos Science & Applications, Inc. for Pharos Traveler GPS 525
Category: Hardware - Wearable Wireless Device or Fashion Technology
1st place - Plantronics for Discovery 645 Bluetooth Headset
2nd place - LG Electronics MobileComm for LG Style-I
3rd place - Motorola Inc. for Motorola and Burton Audex(TM) Jacket Series
Category: Enterprise Solutions - Convergence
1st place - Dell Inc. for Latitude D620/D820 Notebook Computers
2nd place - Lenovo for ThinkPad T60, X60, Z60 with integrated CDMA EvDO and GSM HSDPA 3G technology and service
3rd place - Tekelec for Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC)
Category: Enterprise Solutions - Location Based Services
1st place - Smarter Agent, Inc. for Smarter Agent's Recently Sold Homes Search (LBS - Location Based Service)
2nd place - NII Holdings, Inc. for iPhone Panic
3rd place - @Road, Inc. for @Road Technology Van
Category: Enterprise Solutions - RFID/Sensors/Machine to Machine/ Telemetry/Device Management
1st place - Aeris.net for the AerFrame
Category: Enterprise Solutions - ROI
1st place - Accenture for Accenture Communications Featuring the Service Delivery Platform
2nd place - m-Qube, Inc. for m-Qube Mobile iQ Navigator
3rd place - NII Holdings, Inc. for PWAP
Category: Network Infrastructure - Most Innovative In-Building Solution
1st place - Lucent Technologies for Lucent Base Station Router (BSR)
2nd place - Nokia for Nokia Flexi WCDMA Base Solution
3rd place - Able Planet Inc. for LINX AUDIO(TM) VolP Phone
Category: Network Infrastructure - UMA Network
1st place - Kineto Wireless for Kineto IP-UNC
2nd place - Netrake for nCite Security Gateway
3rd place - Azaire Networks for IP Converged Network Platform (IP-CNP)

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