GyPSii Receives Symbian Star Developer Award

GeoSentric Oyji’s GeoSolutions BV Business Unit has announced that it has been recognized with the prestigious Symbian (News - Alert) Star Developer Award. The company received the Most Innovative Symbian Application in recognition of its mobile digital lifestyle application and geo-mobility social networking platform, the GyPSii.

The Star Developer Awards were created to recognize the most unique and innovative applications developed for mobile phones based on Symbian OS as selected by leading developer programs.

GyPSii was nominated for an award by NAVTEQ (News - Alert) Networks for Developers (NN4D). Considered an innovative application, it also caught the eyes of the judges at the finals of the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge earlier this year.

Sam Critchley, GyPSii Vice President collected the award, which was presented by David Wood (News - Alert), EVP Research at Symbian.

“We are delighted to receive this award and have GyPSii recognized internationally for our continued development using the Symbian platform,” said Critchley, in a company statement.

“I thank NAVTEQ for its support as GyPSii continues to innovate and grow its customer base across the globe. Our use of NAVTEQ maps means that GyPSii members can link their User Generated Content to the very latest mapping data, as well as updated points of interest (POI) and other useful content to deliver a rich user experience to our members merging their physical and virtual worlds.”

“GyPSii is a great example of how map data and GPS technology can be combined to develop innovative wireless LBS applications, so we had no hesitation in nominating it for the Symbian Star Developer Award,” explained Marc Naddell, vice president and partner of Developer Programs at NAVTEQ, in the statement.

“NAVTEQ digital mapping provides the right quality and depth of coverage to effectively support this type of social networking solution that connects user-generated content to people and places.”

GyPSii members are provided with the ability to experience a broad range of location-specific capabilities and mobile lifestyle services, including user-generated content, content-sharing, geo-location content search and social networking. Users can also view it all on a map within a single experience that includes NAVTEQ map data and content.

With GyPSii, members can access and enjoy real-time mobile features on their device, including “Locating Friends” and sharing information on nearby points of interest, such as restaurants, bars and clubs that are contributed by friends and fellow GyPSii members.

GyPSii currently runs on Symbian phones from Nokia & Samsung, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry (News - Alert) devices, in addition to the Apple iPhone and browser-based Internet-connected devices. It can be accessed on the web at www.gypsii.com or a compatible phone’s mobile browser at www.gypsii.com/m.

The GyPSii solution has been recognized within the industry as delivering the type of experience that users want. As the demand continues to grow for platforms that share user-generated content, a number of new offerings are likely to be available.

Those that will dominate the market will provide user-relevant content that is easy to access and easy to share. Star providers will also emerge who can easily anticipate the next new trend and make such usage available before it experiences strong growth.