Spb Software House Wins Big at Pocket PC Best Software Awards 2003

October 29, 2003 - Spb Software House is the recipient of three "Best Software Awards 2003" at the recent awards ceremony in Las Vegas, Nevada, last week. Having the second-highest number of total awards given out at the ceremony, Spb Software House won for GPRS Monitor, Pocket Plus, and Spb Full Screen Keyboard.

CEO Sebastian-Justus Schmidt was thrilled with the results: "We feel honored to have been chosen from among the over 600 overall finalists to win these three awards, all in highly-competitive categories. We feel confident that as our product portfolio continues to evolve, we'll see even better results next year. I'd like to especially thank all Spb customers for their continued support and feedback on how we can make our products even better."

To help celebrate the occasion, customers who purchase one or more of these award-winning applications betwen October 30, 2003 and November 7, 2003 will receive a free copy of Spb Arkaball, a fast-paced action game with a $9.95 USD value.

Pocket Plus is a popular application, frequently on the Handango Top 10 best sellers list, that revamps the Pocket PC operating system with enhancements that have been requested by many Pocket PC users, but are still missing in all the official operating systems. Some of the features Pocket Plus adds include making the "X" icon truly close a program, adding a task manager by tapping and holding on the "X", multiple window and full-screen support for Pocket Internet Explorer, repeating alarms for appointments, tasks, and clock alarms, a comprehensive Today screen plug-in that includes battery monitoring, storage monitoring, program and document shortcuts. Pocket Plus has been localized into several languages and is a useful tool to add to any Pocket PC.

Spb Full Screen Keyboard is a unique text input tool for Pocket PC. Unlike other input methods it covers the entire screen area and has keys large enough to be typed with finger-tips rather than with a stylus. It is very handy for entering large amounts of text - as you type, the text is being entered into an edit box where it can be selected, deleted or edited. Spb Full Screen Keyboard also features close interaction with other Pocket PC programs. It runs as one of the text input tools in the Soft Input Panel (SIP), the Pocket PC native facility for entering text. As C|NET wrote, "If you'd prefer not to learn a new keyboard layout, Spb Full Screen Keyboard may be the best bet. The application does what its name implies, covering the whole screen of your Pocket PC and letting you type with your thumbs, rather than a character at a time with your stylus."

Spb GPRS Monitor is a complete solution for measuring the amount of data transfers via your GPRS, CDMA or GSM network connection and calculating network usage costs. Spb GPRS Monitor keeps track of all data transfers you perform, and calculates the cost of your GPRS usage taking into account your service plan details: inclusive data amount, data block size. etc. By allowing users to monitor and control their GPRS data usage, GPRS Monitor performs a valuable function - it has been described by customers as "indispensable" and "the first application I install on a new Pocket PC". Features of GPRS Monitor include daily and monthly data limit pop-up warning notifications, keeping the user from expensive data overuse charges, auto-changing profiles keeps the data accurate no matter where the user is, a rich user experience through skinable customization of pop-up windows, and increased options in the Today-screen plug-in including control over data speed refresh rates, traffic status for the day/month/week/session, traffic cost, current connection speed, and addition icons such as brightness control, battery panel, Pocket Internet Explorer, and Pocket Inbox.

About Spb Software House

Spb Software House is a software development company, specializing mainly in Windows Mobile software for Pocket PCs. Founded in 1999, the company offers advanced software solutions for use in a wide range of applications.

Further Information and Downloads

Further information regarding Pocket Plus can be found on our Web site:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/pocketplus

Further information regarding Full Screen Keyboard 2.0 can be found on our Web site:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/fsk

Further information regarding GPRS Monitor can be found on our Web site:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/gprsmonitor