Best Mobile Gaming: Hong Kong-based Artificial Life won the gaming category for the innovative V-Girl - Your Virtual Girlfriend. The girl, called Vivian, lives in a virtual and graphically-advanced 3D world inside the phone, and the object is to help her continue through life. She wakes up in the morning, goes to work and home again, and needs food, rest, care - and sometimes a present - to be happy.
Best Mobile Entertainment: The entertainment prize went to Swedish outfit Softhouse and their application Twin Factor. It is an MMS-based application where users send in a picture and in return receive a sequence where the person in the picture morphs into the celebrity which most resembles them.
Best Mobile Enterprise: The enterprise category was won by German developer Gavitec with an application called Lavasphere, which can read optical codes such as bar codes. In an example of a local bus application, a user could scan a code printed at a bus stop, get the departure time for next bus on the phone and buy a ticket online. The ticket is sent in the form of another optical tag. The bus in turn has a reader that detects the tag from the phone's display. Also, the code could be used as internet links or for downloads.
Best Information Application: Wayfinder, of Sweden, won the prize for best information application with its EuroNavigator. The application is a GPS-based mapping and navigation solution where phone users can download maps and detailed site information. In this way, maps and local information are always up to date. The system also uses local traffic information to offer the best route and a voice service guides the user to the end of the journey. The system covers Europe today and is about to be launched in the US.
