March 31, 2004 - Handy Day 2004 for Sony Ericsson smartphones by Epocware is announced the Best Productivity Application for Symbian OS by customers.

Handango, the leading provider of mobile downloads, announced the winners of the Handango People's Choice awards for the spring 2004. The People's Choice awards are bi-annual awards designed to honor those applications that offer customers the best quality available in the mobile software world.

From September 30, 2003 to March 30, 2004 Handango customers voted for their favorite applications. Handy Day 2004 received the most votes in a Best Productivity Application category for Symbian OS.

"These applications meet the ultimate standard for any great product: customers love them!" said Randy Eisenman, president and chief executive office at Handango. "Congratulations to the winning developers on their outstanding achievement and their endorsement by thousands of customers."

Epocware has five years experience developing and successfully distributing software for Symbian OS/EPOC platform. The company developed Handy utilities and SlovoEd translation dictionaries, well known among thousand of Symbian OS/EPOC devices owners all over the world. Handango People's Choice award is another evidence of Epocware world leadership in creating essential software for Symbian OS platform from the customers.

This is not the first time when Handango marks Epocware contribution to the development of Symbian OS software. In July 2003 SlovoEd dictionaries by Epocware were proclaimed the Best Education & Reference Application for Symbian OS, Handango Champions awards 2003. In June 2002 Epocware won Outstanding Achievement Awards from Handango and was declared The Best Software Developer for Symbian OS Platform.

The high quality services and value provided by Epocware products are recognized not only by end users but also by Symbian OS phone manufactures. For example, SlovoEd dictionaries for Series 60 are preinstalled in each Nokia 6600 phone in the context of Try&Buy program. Siemens SX1 has two applications developed by Epocware embedded in each phone.

At present Epocware development department actively works on implementing new features into its products and extending the current product lines with new titles. In particular, a new version of SlovoEd dictionary engine for Series 60 was released in March as well as 60 new translation dictionaries. A new essentially improved version of People's Choice awarded Handy Day 2004 will be release within next two months.