In one of the highest-profile industry gatherings of the year, PhatWare Corporation, a leading provider of software products and professional services for mobile and desktop computers, received 'Best Productivity Application for Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC' honors for its PhatPad note taking application at the Handango Champion Awards in San Diego. Singled out from a field of roughly 20 nominees and several thousand possible products in its category, the application was chosen by experts at leading publications including USA Today, Network Computing, PDAStreet, Network World, PocketGoddess and others.

The Handango Champion Awards, given this year during a gala evening dinner at the world-renowned San Diego Zoo, are part of the Handango Partner Summit. Sponsored by Ericsson, Microsoft, Nokia, palmOne, and Sony, each winning entry in the competition, considered among the most respected and exhaustively deliberated in the mobile software industry, includes a $5,000 marketing stipend as well as other high-visibility promotional opportunities.

"PhatPad has been on the market less than a year, which makes winning Handango's PocketPC 'Best Productivity Application' award even more special," said Stan Miasnikov, president of PhatWare Corporation. "With this win PhatPad has earned its way to the center of the mobile software industry in terms of recognition, perception, and visibility. We're grateful to the consumers and professionals that have placed PhatPad, and so many other PhatWare products, at the top of their class."

The Handango Champion Awards is a multi-phase competition. In the finalist round, customers and experts nominate favorite applications in each category; winners are ultimately chosen by a panel of top tech industry representatives from nearly two dozen magazines and other media outlets.

"The Handango Champion Awards are designed to recognize outstanding software development, which is why PhatPad won Best Productivity Application in the Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC category," said Clint Patterson, vice president of marketing for Handango. "With strong features and intuitive design, PhatPad for Pocket PC is a serious productivity application that Handango's customers just seem to love."

PhatPad is an advanced notes organizer for Windows Mobile-Powered Pocket PCs The handy product enables users to jot handwritten notes, quickly sketch pictures, or mix typed text with pictures on a virtual scratch pad. Using a unique digital ink technology that provides extremely smooth ink flow, PhatPad offers different ink colors, up to 1,000 handwritten pages per file, all standard editing commands, and file attachment capability that allows users to email their notes to others.

PhatPad for Pocket PC is available for a free 30-day trial download from the PhatWare website, www.phatware.com Purchase price for PhatPad is $19.95; a combo pack, which bundles PhatPad with the company's popular handwriting recognition product, CalliGrapher (individually priced at $29.95), is available for only $44.95 until August 31, 2004.

About PhatWare

Founded in October 1997, PhatWare Corporation is a leading provider of easy to use, powerful software products and professional services for the mobile and desktop computing marketplace. PhatWare specializes in handwriting recognition, digital ink, note taking, and database and network management software development. PhatWare Corporation is a Microsoft Certified Partner, a Microsoft Windows Embedded partner, and a founding member of the Microsoft Mobility Partner Advisory Council (MPAC), a unique partner program developed by Microsoft Corp. to serve as a focused feedback mechanism for Microsoft Windows Mobile platform development. MPAC provides leading companies with the tools and resources they need to bring the most innovative and successful mobility solutions to market. To learn more about PhatWare, visit www.phatwarecom