Yesterday has been one of the most incredible days of my life!
Not only I won the Cellulari.it Special Award during the 1st Mobile Fun Awards organized by the magazine Wireless for the Mobile Fun Forum 2003, but also the national TV channel La7 recorded the awarding of the prizes and later they even interviewed the winners, including me with Euro coins pocket collector on my Pocket PC!!!
Update: La7 did not broadcast the recording of the event, what a pity.
I’ll keep you updated on all the press coverage of the event, of course, which will include the videos downloadable from my website and I can already say there’s really much more to come! This may turn into the market exposure I was in real need of… oh, and big names like Toshiba, Palm, the Italian QQAAXX and HP ( here not in a casual order ) were much more pleased to hear my sponsorship proposals after I won the award.
I even met some my ex-Trecision’s coworkers there, who did loud cheers during my prize-giving, but I was too deeply stirred to understand they just came from them.
The prize-giving occurred at the end of a long morning with many lecturers talking about the great marketing opportunities of the mobile economy in Italy. The lecture of my friend Enrico Pappolla of Pocket PC Italia, which took place in the afternoon, was the most interesting one for me since he talked about wireless connectivity on Pocket PCs and SmartPhones and showed some amazing hardware like the new XDA 2, two new SmartPhones and the latest GPS Navigation software.
I caught a bit of flue, but this great satisfaction makes me almost forget it, and it better be this way since I’ve got a lot of work to do and I have to be fine for this coming Friday…
Here’s a quick scan of the plate of the award: