How We Improved the 2007 Awards

I'm very happy with the results of this year's Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine Best Software Awards. We put a lot of attention and work into creating a comprehensive and logically consistent category structure, and we think it paid off. Major changes include the following:

• Expanded sub-categories within the Communications category: This category had two sub-categories last year; it has 14 this year.
• Separate Emulator category with sub-categories: The Game Emulator sub-category from last year was turned into a major category called "Emulators." This new category has over a dozen sub-categories. I spent almost two months documenting the emulators available for Windows Mobile and creating a category structure for them.
• Expanded sub-categories in the Games category: For example, in addition to the Strategy sub-category, we've added Real-Time Strategy and Turn-Based Strategy. We also have separate categories for Backgammon games, First-Person Shooters, Golf games, Top-Down Puzzle Adventure games, and more.
• Expanded sub-categories in the Multimedia category.
• Expanded sub-categories in the Utilities category.
• Expanded the number of categories in the non-touch screen smartphone section.
• Minor changes in a number of other categories.