Would such an offer be too good to be true?
Oh no, it’s real actually, since that sentence is the slogan of the 2006 Best of Everything Software Package, a package containing the latest versions of winners and finalists from the Best Software Awards 2005, the annual contest organized by the american Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine.
As I previously wrote on the blog, my EcPc QVGA was a finalist in the 2005 edition of the contest, so it has been included into the package together with 130 of the very best applications and games available for Windows Mobile devices.
I’m very satisfied to see my software listed among other great Pocket PC applications and I’ve been even more proud to read the comment about my software by one of the judges, Jack Cook, Senior Editor of Mobility Today, when they announced the finalists. You can read it in the awards page together with the scan of the nice certificate they sent me.
For the details of the offer please go to the official website, there’s even a so called Value Calculator, an Excel precompiled file actually, to help you determine if the total of the software you’d like to buy exceeds the package price. Very useful addition in my opinion.
They also put together a Best of Everything Smartphone Software Package, selling for $139, which includes over $600 worth of software only for Smartphones based on Windows Mobile. If you have a bunch of Windows Mobile software on your shopping list I’d suggest you to browse the contents of those packages since the probability to find most of them inside them is pretty high.
There’s also the The Best of Everything Demo CD which is part of the main package and contains the demo versions of the software. It’s given for free to 2 year subscribers, but you can order it separately for 15$.
Being a developer I agreed to make available my software free of charge to other developers whose products have been included into the package and who choose the same option to share their own software. I consider a very nice opportunity being able to share software among trusted developers, a sort of digital fair play. Not all of them agreed to this sharing opportunity, but most did, so another thumbs up for the makers of the package.
Speaking about latest versions, I can assure you I’ll release version 1.6 of EcPc before I’ll leave for holidays on August, so that you can upgrade from version 1.5, which is in the package. At the same time we’re building the new EcPc website. It already looks great but it will take some more time to complete.