The winning Xperia Panel from the Sony Ericsson Content Awards 2008 is now available to download for trial and purchase. The winner for the Xperia X1 Panels category was SPB Traveler, developed by SPB. When the winners were announced, the panel was unavailable for download, but it has now been added to SPB’s website. You can download a trial version or purchase the full version for $29.95.

The panel allows users to access a phrase book, keep track of meetings, convert currencies and clothing sizes. The panel also features a world clock with global weather forecasts. Other useful travel features include flight search, 3D globe and a geographical game.

A while back we reported that the Xperia Panels category in the Sony Ericsson Content Awards was still open for submissions. All submissions have now been sent in and a winner has been announced.

The Traveler Panel by SPB includes many useful tools for travellers such as a phrasebook, currency converter, flight search and a multi-time zone diary. Unfortunately it doesn’t appear to be available for download currently from SPB or from Sony Ericsson’s website.

Other nominees in the competition included an English to Japanese dictionary named Mobisystems, Ping.fm, PlusFourSize, used with the operator 3 and Evernote. Likewise these panels are also not currently available for download but we’ll keep you informed when they’re available for download.

Via: Xperiancer

The panel interface is one of the highlighted features of the new Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 and as we previously reported, Sony released the SDK for the panels which allows developers to rush in and create a host of optional panels to fill one of the nine panel slots on the cell phone.

Read the rest of this entry »