Overall Awards
Best App of 2010:
Preware, by WebOS Internals
“WebOS Internals is honoured to receive these awards for our development team and open source homebrew applications. Members of our development team receive no direct financial rewards for creating Preware or Govnah, but the public recognition in the form of these awards and the recent telethon donation response (used to purchase sixteen Pre 2 developer devices) really does give us a great sense of appreciation for our work.”
- Rod Whitby, WebOS Internals
Runner-up: Angry Birds, by Rovio Mobile
Other nominees: Bad Kitty, drPodder, foursquare, GeoStrings, Govnah, Mode Switcher, Music (Remix), and Neato!
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Best Developer of 2010:
 WebOS Internals
Runner-up: Canuck Coding
Other nominees: Gameloft, Inglorious Apps, James Harris, More Solutions, Rovio Mobile, Sconix, Self Aware Games, WebOS Internals, and Zhephree
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App Catalog Awards
Best Game of 2010:
Runner-up: Need for Speed Undercover, by EA Games
Other nominees: Paratrooper, Radiant, and Rednecks Vs. Aliens
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Best Music App of 2010:
Runner-up: drPodder, by Jamie Hatfield
Other nominees: Ampache Mobile, Grooveshark, and Spotify
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Best Location-Based/GPS App of 2010:
 BFG Maps, by watchmefreak.com
“I would like to thank the entire PreCentral community, and all that have supported the BFGMaps project.(Special thanks to Neve, MannyMan (Gomez Industries), and of course PreCentral for spreading the word)”
- Tim Geiges
Runner-up: foursquare, by Zhephree
Other nominees: GeoStrings, MapTool Pro, and YPmobile
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Best Social Networking App of 2010:
Runner-up: Bad Kitty, by SuperInhuman Industries
Other nominees: foursquare, Spaz, and Twee
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Best Twitter App of 2010:
 Bad Kitty, by SuperInhuman Industries
“Wow guys. Thanks to everyone for voting for us, we’re floored! A lot of thanks to you guys for giving great feedback, sharing awesome ideas, and just in general good vibes towards the app. It means a lot and is encouraging to us to keep on top of it. A big thank you goes to our testers who are first to pound on the app and ensure that we keep the quality high before it gets into everyone else's hands. Last, but not least, a gigantic thanks and congrats goes to my webOS partner in crime, Jeremy (@germboy). Because of him, the updates have been fast and furious, and the ideas that he has put into Bad Kitty are some of the best that really define the app. Again, thanks everyone for your vote. We really look forward to adding more fun things to Bad Kitty, making it available on more devices that come out in the future, and also creating more apps for you to use in 2011. These are exciting times, and we are only getting started.”
- Hal Saville, SuperInhuman Industries
Runner-up: Tweed, by Pivotal Labs
Other nominees: Spaz, Twee, and TweetMe
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Best News App of 2010:
Runner-up: NewsRoom, by Trileet, Inc.
Other nominees: AP Mobile, Feeder, and The New York Times
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Best Productivity App of 2010:
 Notes, by Inglorious Apps
“Thanks to all my Inglorious fans for supporting my development efforts. Stay productive my friends.”
- Ruky, Inglorious Apps
Runner-up: Dropboxify, by DoGood
Other nominees: Done!, My DataBank, and Scratch
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Best Education App of 2010:
Runner-up: TED, by Coolstreak Cartoons Inc.
Other nominees: A+ Student Organizer, Study Buddy, and Wapedia
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Best Health App of 2010:
 Epocrates, by Epocrates, Inc.
Runner-up: SmartRunner, by SmartRunner GmbH
Other nominees: Absolute Fitness, Diet Control, and JogStats
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Best Business/Finance App of 2010:
“We would like to thank the webOS community for all their support, especially those here at PreCentral as it was here that it all began. We look forward to 2011 as HP makes good on the promise of bringing webOS to the next level with new devices and webOS 2.0 and beyond. Our goal for Pack ‘n’ Track for 2011 is to not only to ensure compatibility for the onslaught of upcoming devices, but to expand into the international market and support a variety of new shippers. Our mission is to provide the best mobile apps regardless of platform and 2011 will bring a variety of new apps and enhancements to our existing ones. Again thank you all for your continued support.”
- Greg Hrebek, Synactix
Runner-up: Checkbook, by GlitchTech Science
Other nominees: BillMyTime, MoreStocks, and Top Stocks
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Best Sports App of 2010:
“More Solutions is thrilled to be honored in this contest. We thank the outstanding webOS community for its support throughout the year. Without all of you, Sports Live! has evolved beyond our own expectations. We look forward to even better 2011!”
- Tony Arous, More Solutions
Runner-up: Sports Calendar, by Unnamed Applications, LLC
Other nominees: Fantasy Sports, Goal.com Mobile, and NHL Scores
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Best Utility App of 2010:
 Neato!, by Zhephree
“This is really great. To have been up against some fantastic apps and developers and win is incredible. I really love all the support that the webOS community continues to give and I want to continue to support the community back with more webOS apps in 2011. Thanks so much!”
- Geoff Gauchet, Zhephree
Runner-up: MyQ for Netflix, by nexapps.net
Other nominees: Dropboxify, jVault, and Wifi Media Sync
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Homebrew/Beta Awards
Best Homebrew/Beta Feed/Web Dist. App of 2010:
Preware, by WebOS Internals
Runner-up: Govnah, by WebOS Internals
Other nominees: Dr. Battery, Facebook (Beta Client), Internalz, Mode Switcher, Music (Remix), Nanplayer, Save/Restore, and Zcorder
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Best Homebrew Developer of 2010:
WebOS Internals
Runner-up: Jason Robitaille
Other nominees: DanPLC, Sconix, and uNiXpSyChO
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Best Patch of 2010:
Runner-up: Advanced Configuration for App Launcher, by Sconix
Other nominees: Advanced Configuration for System Preferences, Facebook Chat Spoof, and UberCalendar
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Best Theme of 2010:
“Wow, what a pleasure! I'm so grateful to everyone who voted for Glass Effect. But more than that I'm just pleased (and a little stunned) that you all like it so much - at the end of the day I just wanted to make a simple no-frills theme that could help make the already beautiful webOS just a little more so. Thanks again, and here's to a long and bright future for webOS.”
- errade
Runner-up: Original Blue Theme, by nights0223
Other nominees: iPhone Black Launcher, Sticker Theme, and Suave for the Palm Pre
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Technical Awards
Best Use of webOS Notifications in 2010:
“Thank you to the whole PreCentral community for supporting Music Player (Remix) and thanks for everyone who voted for Music Player (Remix) as the app with the best use of notifications. One of the best features of webOS is its unique interactive notification system. Without it, the mini-player mode in Music Player (Remix) would not have been possible.”
- Dan Perlberger
Runner-up: Sports Live!, by More Solutions, LLC
Other nominees: Bad Kitty, drPodder, and Weather Dashboard
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Best Cloud Integration in 2010:
Neato!, by Zhephree
Runner-up: Dropboxify, by DoGood
Other nominees: Done!, Notes, and ZumoDrive
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Most Innovative App of 2010:
Preware, by WebOS Internals
Runner-up: Govnah, by WebOS Internals
Other nominees: GeoStrings, Mode Switcher, and Neato!
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Most Beautiful App of 2010:
“The webOS community has been really supportive to me. I've always loved the match between the visuals of Ancient Frog and the physical design of the Pre - it's an honour to see that recognised with an award like this.”
- James Brown, Ancient Workshop
Runner-up: Bad Kitty, by SuperInhuman Industries
Other nominees: foursquare, TED, and TweetMe
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22 Comments
Fans of "Survivor" this season were upset that contestants that quit were still allowed to participate in the Jury, to help decide who would win the million dollars. It sparked a rule change for future seasons... that if they quit, the producers can kick them off the show and do NOT have to have them in the jury.
Likewise, If a developer quits WebOS, maybe they should not stand to get any kudos from the community. We don't have to kick them off the island, they left.
I'm looking at you, Epocra-Tease!
OMG, vindictive much?
Sorry, but Epocrates pulled the plug on 12/7 (that is when it was announced here anyway). The voting for these apps opened up 12/17, a full 10 days later.
It appears as though your peers do not agree with you.
Just as a reply to the Survivor comment, and not in any way as a metaphor for what should be done to developers who ditch webOS - I thought that the two contestants who quit should have not only not been on the jury, but excised from the *entire history of the show*. If you're going to give up like those two did, you shouldn't ever have been a part of it in the first place.
Vindictive? I'd say not.
But a bit ticked at them? You betcha!
It's not about just dropping support or not updating the app, they are going beyond that. They are actively are killing it, while having the nerve to say they care about WebOS users.
Fortunately, PalmDoc and others have filled in, best wishes to them.
Maybe as far as an app itself, Ep deserved the kudos. But those at the company who are abandoning it, and us, not so much.
Otherwise, I agree with most of the selections made.
Congrats to all of you, including the ones that didn't win! There are alot more good apps out there than people like to admit!
Congrats to all, well deserved.
Except one: the Engadget App people? So an app that is half functional most of the year was that good to you?
I thought Dr Podder would win some awards. Runner up is nice, but that App makes listening to Podcast a heck of a lot easier then the iPhone or any Android app.
I thought Dr Podder would win some awards. Runner up is nice, but that App makes listening to Podcast a heck of a lot easier then the iPhone or any Android app.
OK, this means that next year webOS internals and their products can't be nominated so someone else can have a turn! Congrats to all. I'm only disappointed that Jason R didn't get some love,,, He certainly is a champion in my book!
Future PreCentral Best of XXXX Awards will require that apps be new or substantially updated since the last awards.
On Christmas, it will be 17 months since we posted the first design documents for Preware onto the webos-internals wiki.
It's 16 months since the first public release of Preware. It's hard to imagine how far the webOS community has come in that time, and it's very difficult for me to accept just how the community has supported the folks who have joined the webos-internals team over that time.
In that not yet a year and a half, I have had it shown to me over and over that participating in a community of peers gives back more than you give. If this has taught me any lesson, it's that pay-it-forward works.
It's a wonderful lesson to have learned. Thanks. And watch out for some -more- cool stuff from the webos-internals team. With everything HP has said is coming, the NEXT sixteen months should be a wild ride.
-_ Rick Boatright
Why does Preware win 3 of them? These awards is pointless . IMO
Because that's how the people voted. Kinda simple, really.
Engadget for best news app? I would agree with this if they took some time and fixed the comments section. I'm not sure when it happened but you can only see comments from webOS users which means you rarely see any user comments. It's been this way for awhile now. We used to have access to all comments. Maybe this award will prompt them to fix the app but I'm not holding my breathe.
Engadget completely redesigned their website, and in so doing they switched their commenting system over to Disqus. They have yet to update the app for compatibility with the new system.
I'm down. Laying on the ground. I cannot download/buy 99.9% of those amazing apps.
Please do something - ANYTHING! - to let the whole world even touch what you are voting for.
As my son could say "It's not fair". And I agree with him it's just not fair that someone like me and thousands of Palm users cannot even touch the them.
Not fair, not fair, not fair...
You can certainly download and install Preware.
It's available even where the app catalog is not.
If you have access to the app catalog, the Preware Homebrew Documentation app is the best resource for installing Preware.
If you do not have access to the app catalog, http://install.preware.org/ will lead the way for you.
-- Rod
I was expecting more love for Mode Switcher and Newsroom... those apps are all kinds of awesome! At least I voted for them :)
This is a great list of apps! There are a few I don't have that I'll have to check out.
I find it really strange that "Glass Suite" was even in the running for best theme. It wouldn't take more than a few minutes to design a transparent background for the launcher and menus. Same story with the iPhone black launcher theme. It's not a theme and why celebrate someone who tries to make webOS look like iOS? The other nominees are great.
Congrats to all the winners and nominees!
I missed the voting, but wanted to offer congratulations to the winners and nominees. I haven't been coming by the boards as much over the last few months and it is in large part because my phone does what I need it to do and I am not looking for a work-around to some issue. I'm excited to see what HP and our webOS devs have in store for 2011! My thanks to you all. I use many of those apps on those lists and it is great to see the depth in each category.
@ Rod
Prewere was one of the firs app I did install on my Pro 2 :) It's great app, perfectly fitted but giving access only to free apps & patches (or demo eventually). None of them was awarded... None of awarded apps are available by Preware for Pre 2 users in Poland...
Even though I totally understand why Angry Birds and Pandora get the votes, they are great apps, I would have loved to see WebOS only devs gets the love instead. Now that I am on Android more than my Pre, I miss certain apps and developers. DrPodder and jVault are apps I just can't find a good replacement for in the Android Market. Nothing comes close to the power that is WebOS Internals. The developers of Wifi Media Sync, and Music Player (Remix) are the most responsive, and truly cared how customers perceived their products. I would suggest next year that a category should be added for Best Developer Support for those developers who are the most responsive and update their apps the most frequently. Happy Holidays everyone.