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SPB Traveler wins panels competition

// February 9th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // PANELS, X1 NEWS

Sony Ericsson announced the winners of their content awards for 2008 this morning. You can see all the other winners on the content awards site but the prize for the best new Xperia panel went to SPB software for the SPB traveler panel.

The panel uses the internet connection and the GPS on the X1 to provide you with a number of useful travelling tools including a currency convertor, flight search, multi time zone diary and a phrasebook. For more information check out SPB’s website.

Update:

The nominees were:

Evernote

Ping.fm

Mobisystems (English to Japanese dictionary)

PlusFourSix (for their work on 3 sweden’s operator panel)

Sony Ericsson launches 2008 Content Awards

// September 18th, 2008 // No Comments » // ANNOUNCEMENTS, X1 NEWS

Finally, the 2008 Sony Ericsson Content Awards are here. This year we hope to build on the success of last years event, and make the Content Awards 2008 even bigger and better.

One of the key goals of the 2008 Content Awards is to reward innovative and useful Panels for the X1 that make use of Xperia’s capabilities to deliver a better mobile experience. Our growing developer community will be an absolutely key part of creating better mobile experiences that attract mobile users around the world.

Developers can open up a world of possibilities for people to interact with the Xperia X1 and we want to recognize and support developers who build great Panels for it.

Here are some suggested areas of focus to get you started:

* Location based services
* Social networking
* New and exciting, intuitive and innovative user interfaces
* Productivity and collaboration such as email, instant messaging, etc.
* Use of widget functionality
* News and information aggregation

You can download the SDK here and jump start your Panel development.

Vildan Hasanbegovic