More than 180 projects were submitted to the fifth edition of the SIMagine 2004 Worldwide GSM and Java Card Developer Contest. At a gala dinner at the 3GSM World Congress at Cannes in February, an international jury awarded prizes to the ten finalists who presented their projects during the show.

Gold award

Beihang University 2, China – My Card
My Card provides a comprehensive solution for personal information exchange by setting up an efficient environment to ensure information is quickly and effectively exchanged, stored, organized, update and easily located when needed.

Silver award

MobilTek, Poland – Voice Messaging System
Enables a user to send and receive voice messages as easily as text ones. The applet menu allows user to browse received messages list (inbox), select the one to listen to, delete, forward or answer. The applet can be used together with dedicated IVR system or act as front-end for existing network voice mail system.

Bronze award

WLAB, Italy – Key Tone
An identification/authentication method based on the automatic recognition of a unique sequence of tones (ie ringtone) played by a mobile phone. Key Tone can 'off-line' identify users/devices, services and products not only by Bluetooth or IR, but also by simply using tones.

China Unicom award

Beihang University, China - Mobile i-home system
A remote control software system for cell phones enabling users to control their internet & intelligent home (i-home) appliances via their phone anywhere without the need to remember multiple remote control devices to manage their applications.

Orange UK award

ESIM, France - NOEMIE (Now&Me)
A personalized automatic response enabling the subscriber to decide the profile of response s/he gives to an incoming caller in order to let them decide whether to leave a message, send an SMS, MMS or simple call back another time.

Telefonica Moviles award

SoNear, France - SmartLock
SmartLock is a unique, universal and innovative digital right management tool to control the distribution of game applications to handsets, as well as content like news, sports, information, ringtones and logos. Leveraging the security capabilities of the SIM card, it registers a combined identity of the mobile, application and user identity into a signature that is required at each use.

TIM award

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - SIMBlog
SIMBlog brings the convergence of internet blogging and camera phones, giving mobile phone users the ability to create a personalized, interesting and unique website from a mobile phone - including text, pictures and sounds. SIMBlog also enables location based blogging - recording the user's location along with his/her content.

Mobile Community award

Neighbour, Thailand
Neighbour is a virtual community forum enabling mobile users to create, send and respond to messages in specific topics/areas. The operator controls topics and posted messages from users.

Innovation award

S-Tecno, Portugal - SIM Call Center
SIM Call Center enables a user to send a service provider a problem report using intuitive menus that will trigger a customer care response and add categorized information to this request (context, priority etc) enabling the service provider to understand and resolve the problem more quickly.

Jury award

Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA - ISeek
Exploits location-aware cell phone technologies to revolutionize how peoplee meet and interact by creating a novel mobile social infrastructure that allows end users to discover people with similar hobbies, interests etc around them. It uses pattern-matching algorithms and machine-learning heuristics to match subscriber profiles - digital representations of their personalities.