Handango, the leading provider of mobile downloads, today released the Handango Yardstick for the first quarter of 2004 and its first monthly edition for April 2004. The Handango Yardstick will now be released on a monthly basis, reporting the state of the mobile downloads economy.

The Handango Yardstick for the first quarter of 2004 reports the average selling price of mobile downloads by category and the top five phones and PDAs adding software and digital content. Additionally, the Yardstick reveals the most-searched-for terms on the more than 100 download portals powered by Handango. The report also includes a list of the ten best-selling applications and ringtones:

Java

1. Frogger
2. Racing Fever 2
3. Solitair Classic
4. M-Sports Racer
5. SMSXtender
6. Darts
7. Aston Golf
8. Crazy Plumber
9. M-Sports Ski Jumping
10. Backgammon

Symbian OS

1. WorldMate Standard Edition
2. GeniusCaddy
3. Handy Day
4. Total XP Tracker
5. Quickoffice Premier
6. DateMate
7. Handy Tools
8. Remote
9. Tracker
10. WebViewer

Palm OS

1. Agendus Standard Edition
2. Diet & Exercise Assistant
3. Agendus Professional Edition
4. Quickoffice Premier
5. SplashID
6. WorldMate Standard Edition
7. DateBk5
8. Bejeweled
9. SOLITAIRE PACK
10. SplashWallet Suite

Windows Mobile-based Smartphone

1. ClearVue Suite
2. SoundZ Cool
3. Photo Contacts
4. Power Tasks
5. xBar
6. Snake
7. SmartphoneNotes
8. Power Calendar
9. Checkers
10. Interstellar Flames

Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC

1. iPassword
2. Pocket Informant
3. Battery Pack Pro
4. DVD to Pocket PC
5. Journal Bar
6. Agenda Fusion
7. Chopper Alley Classic Collection
8. Microsoft Voice Command
9. CalliGrapher
10. Resco Explorer

Ringtones

1. Mission Impossible
2. In Da Club
3. Pink Panther
4. Addams Family
5. Magnum PI
6. Smooth Criminal
7. I Know What You Want
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Get Busy
10. Sex and the City

A full version of the Handango Yardstick for the first quarter of 2004 is available at http://www.handango.com/pdf/HandangoYardstick_Q104.pdf .


A full version of the Handango Yardstick for April 2004 is available at http://www.handango.com/pdf/HandangoYardstick_April2004.pdf .


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 and 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, Sony, 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, Sony, HP, Sega Mobile, AOL and more than 100 others. For more information, visit http://www.handango.com/ .