CTIA Hot for the Holidays Award Winners Announced

SAN DIEGO--(Business Wire)--
At a ceremony this afternoon, CTIA-The Wireless Association® announced the
winners for the first annual CTIA Hot for the Holidays awards program, revealing
this year`s must-have mobile consumer electronics products and applications.
Hosted by Danny Dumas, associate editor for Product Reviews at WIRED, and WIRED
contributor Steven Leckart, the awards presentation was held on the show floor
at International CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2009®, taking place October
7-9 at the San Diego Convention Center.

Winners across seven categories included "hottest:"

* Bluetooth Accessory - iLane from Intelligent Mechatronic Systems
* Camera Phone - Nokia N86 8MP
* Mobile CE Device - Eye-Fi Explore Video Card
* Mobile Consumer Application - Jitterbug LiveNurse
* Mobile Internet Device or Netbook - MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot for
CDMA 1xEVDO RevA from Novatel Wireless
* Novelty Accessory - Slim Data USB Card from Kempler & Strauss,
* Smartphone - HTC Touch Pro2

Garnering the most online votes, Magneat from YOUvision was named the CTIA 2009
Hottest Web Pick. The Samsung Reclaimearned the most text votes onsite in San
Diego and took home the CTIA 2009 Hottest in Show award.

"CTIA Hot for the Holidays has given retailers and consumers a preview of the
mobile CE products that will be in high demand this holiday season," said Robert
Mesirow, vice president and show director for CTIA. "I`d like to thank our panel
of industry media and analysts who judged the entries and the many innovative
wireless companies that submitted products and gave us such a fantastic
selection on this holiday hot list."

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About International CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2009®

International CTIA WIRELESS IT&E is CTIA`s fall show focused on mobile business.
This event brings together a unique community of enterprise users, carriers,
developers and manufacturers to generate dialogue, share ideas and debate the
economics of wireless innovation.Visit www.ctiashow.com.

CTIA-The Wireless Association® is the international association for the wireless
telecommunications industry, representing carriers, manufacturers and wireless
Internet providers. CTIA is also recognized as the producer of two annual
technology events: International CTIA WIRELESS 2010 takes place in Las Vegas,
March 23-25; International CTIA WIRELESS IT&E 2010 takes place in San Francisco,
October 6-8. For more association information, visit www.ctia.org.

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