Handango Releases November 2004 Mobile Download Stats and Best Sellers

Handango Releases November 2004 Mobile Download Stats and Best Sellers

palmOne Treo 600 Tops the Chart as the Top Phone Adding Mobile Content; Average Title Selling Price Reaches Record Heights

HURST, Texas, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Handango, the leading mobile downloads provider, today released the November 2004 edition of the Handango Yardstick, a monthly report on the state of the mobile downloads economy.

For the first time in over a year and a half, a new handset has taken the lead as the number one phone adding mobile content. The palmOne Treo 600 topped the list for the first time in its history, indicating a big appetite for applications from customers of the red-hot device.

The average selling price of applications jumped heartily from $17.57 to $18.41, a record high for the past two years. Customer searches remained relatively consistent with "MP3/Music," "GPS" and "Games" totaling approximately 12 percent of the top searches. "Ringtones" and "Internet" rounded out the top five accounting for more than 6 percent of the searches.

The November 2004 Handango Yardstick also highlights the ten best-selling applications by operating system.

Palm OS(R) Windows Mobile(TM)-based Smartphone
1. WorldMate Standard Edition 1. SmartphoneNotes
2. Agendus Professional Edition 2. ClearVue Suite
3. PAC-MAN(R) 3. DVD to Smartphone
4. SplashID 4. Power Calendar
5. AOL 5. Bluetooth Switch
6. 9.95 CLOCK 6. Photo Contacts
7. Agendus Standard Edition 7. Power Tasks
8. DateBk5 8. SoundZ Cool
9. Ms. PAC-MAN(R) 9. CityTime Alarms
10. 9.95 SOLITAIRE PACK 10. xBar

Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC Symbian OS(R)
1. Spb Pocket Plus 1. Handy Day
2. Agenda Fusion 2. Quickoffice Premier
3. Pocket Informant 3. WorldMate Professional Edition
4. DVD to Pocket PC 4. WebViewer
5. S & W T 5. WorldMate Standard Edition
6. Battery Pack Pro 6. DateMate
7. PocketBreeze 7. Remote
8. PocketWeather 8. DVD to Mobile
9. PhatPad 9. Agendus
10. Journal Bar 10. Handy Safe

BlackBerry
1. WebViewer
2. EmailViewer
3. MyFlashlight
4. IslandTime
5. Casino Pack
6. Webmessenger
7. Puzzle Pack
8. Tri Peaks Solitaire
9. Blackjack Tournament
10. JAccountant Loan and Shopping calculator




The November edition of the Yardstick also reports software sales by category, average selling price of digital media, number of new software vendors and much more. A full version of the Handango Yardstick for November 2004 is available at http://www.handango.com/pdf/HandangoYardstick_November2004.pdf .

About the Handango Yardstick

Incorporating worldwide data from more than 100 mobile download portals, the Handango Yardstick reports trends across the entire mobile software economy and major mobile operating systems including Java, Symbian OS, Palm OS, Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC, Windows Mobile-based Smartphone and others. Handango powers the software and digital content stores for some of the biggest brands in the mobile software market including Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Kyocera Wireless, palmOne, Microsoft, HP, Sprint, Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless, Orange and more than 100 others.

About Handango

Handango is the leading provider of mobile downloads, bringing over 50,000 applications and 25,000 digital media titles to market through an extensive global distribution network that reaches millions of mobile users. Handango's application management and provisioning platform, Handango AMPP, has been chosen as the mobile software delivery platform for Nokia, Motorola, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile, Orange SA, Sony Ericsson, palmOne, Microsoft, HP, Sega Mobile, AOL and more than 100 others. For more information, visit http://www.handango.com/ .

MS. PAC-MAN(R) (C)1980 1982 2004 Namco Ltd., All Rights Reserved.

PAC-MAN(R) (C)1980 2004 Namco Ltd., All Rights Reserved.


Source: Handango

CONTACT: Ashley Walker of Handango, +1-817-548-2192, or
ashley@handango.com

Web site: http://www.handango.com/
http://www.handango.com/pdf/HandangoYardstick_November2004.pdf


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