917 Products have been nominated in Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine’s Seventh Annual Best Software Awards for Windows Mobile software. Throughout August a team of 100 Windows Mobile experts from around the world will evaluate the software nominees in 151 Pocket PC categories and 40 Smartphone categories.

Nominations Manager, Werner Ruotsalainen, and the 2007 Board of Experts have nominated the top software from Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine’s exhaustive 4888 product Encyclopedia of Software and Accessories. Finalists will be announced in late September and winners in October at the Awards Home Page. Complete details about the winners will be included in the 2007 Buyer’s Guide, available in December, mailed free to Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine subscribers. The list of nominees, the procedure for judging, a link to the Encyclopedia, and the qualifications of the Board of Experts can all be found at the Best Software Awards home page.

From June 29, 2006 through July 13, 2006 the nominations were made available for public feedback, and many suggestions were adopted. Nominations were frozen July 23.

Comments on the Nominations
Comments on the nominations may be made in the Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine forum.

The Board of Experts
The 100 Members of the 2007 Board of Experts, who vote in the awards, are prominent website editors and webmasters, Microsoft MVPs, support forum contributors, and Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine and blog contributing editors. Their qualifications can be found at the awards home page. All are volunteers and none who vote are employed by Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine. The Board of Experts cast votes to determine the winners during August. Winners and finalists are the top vote getters. These experts also submit comments about the software for publication in 2008 issues of Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine and they are also available to the nominees.

From the Publisher of Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine
Smartphone & Pocket PC Executive Editor and Publisher, Hal Goldstein said, “We have been doing this for 7 years, and the nominee’s list is the most comprehensive and accurate list yet. A big thank you goes to Werner Ruotsalainen, the Board of Experts and the general public who helped us get the list “right”. Congratulations to the nominees, who are mostly from small independent companies who have worked so hard to deliver great software to Windows Mobile users.”