The Sony Ericsson Content Awards were launched in 2007. The standard of entry from the beginning was extremely high, from both established and new companies, with a huge variety of interesting content ideas and applications. Click on a category below to find out more and see why they won.
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Opera Mini 4.0 is a customizable web browser for the mobile phone. It showed the world that there is a better way to get the Web on any mobile phone and is now the worldâs most popular mobile web browser. Itâs free to download and use, and more than 1 billion web pages are viewed every month. The full PC version also works on Sony Ericssonâs UIQ-based smartphones.
This game, from the popular Playman Sports series, was made by Mr Goodlivingâ¢, a fully owned subsidiary of RealNetworks® inc which develops and publishes games for mobile phones. Based on parkour and free running, it won the award for its graphics and intuitive gameplay. RealNetworks® inc are already a key development partner of Sony Ericsson so have, and will continue, to develop many popular games for Sony Ericsson handsets.
Made by BitCycle, more than 70, 000 people have bought this picture manipulation program so far. Using a simple cursor, the user can take any part of an image and mould it freely. One of last yearâs award judges stated: âItâll make you smile continuously while youâre using itâ. BitCycleâs goal was to give the user control and room for creativity, compared with other products available on the market.
Stockholm-based companies Metronize and Bruket 3D Animation took the award for Themes & Graphics with The Geeks â a Pixar inspired fictional band. Mobile proved to be the perfect platform for âThe Geeksâ, and their mini-movies have been downloaded to thousands of handsets from the 'Fun and Downloads' area of the Sony Ericsson site. The band now has a huge following and even has a fan-base on MySpace.
The TrackID⢠music recognition service is powered by Gracenote Mobile MusicID. TrackID⢠records a few seconds of a track from the radio or the phone's microphone, sends the track to the comprehensive Gracenote music database for identification and returns the information to the phone. Once the track is identified, the phone also includes an integrated download service so there is no need to exit the music player to access the web browser to visit on-line music stores.
