San Francisco, CA – The 2009 Best App Ever Awards nomination period is quickly drawing to a close. The awards team has been tracking the leaders in each of the 56 categories. With less than two weeks to go in the nomination process for the 2009 Best App Ever Awards, the team is proud to present the top nominees in all open categories. The top five apps that have received votes from the iPhone app community are presented in alphabetical order here:

Created by 148Apps, the 2009 Best App Ever Awards are expected to greatly exceed the interest of last year’s inaugural competition, which received nearly 100,000 votes for over 1000 apps, since the 2009 awards’ announcement, over 2,900 applications have been submitted from over 13,000 nominations to date. Tasked with honoring the best apps, and not just the best selling, the awards were the first iPhone OS application achievement awards to recognize the best iPhone apps and games released in the iTunes App Store.

All app nominations must be submitted online at the Best App Ever site through December 31, 2009. Finalists will be announced on January 1, 2010 and will include the top five popular nominees in each category, combined with five nominations from industry experts. Voting for these finalists will run through January 31, 2010.

The top 10 nominated iPhone apps overall will compete for the title of Best App Ever.

Winners in all categories will be announced at the 2010 MacWorld Expo in San Francisco.

About Best App Ever Awards
To nominate your favorite app, please submit the online form. Nominations will remain open until 11:59 pm PST on December 31, 2009. Finalists will be announced on January 1, 2010 and will include the top five popular nominees in each category, combined with 5 nominations from industry experts. Voting for these finalists will run through January 31, 2010. The top 10 nominated iPhone apps overall will compete for the title of Best App Ever. Winners will be announced at the 2010 MacWorld Expo in San Francisco.

Popular Vote Leaders
2009 Best App Ever Awards
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148Apps, a group of consumer-focused iPhone application news and review sites, launched shortly after the app store in July 2008. The site has grown quickly to reach hundreds of thousands of viewers monthly. In January 2009, 148Apps sponsored the Best App Ever Awards, the first achievement awards created specifically to honor application development on the iPhone. In May 2009, 148apps.biz launched to address the needs of iPhone app developers and other business people making a living on iPhone applications. Copyright (C) 2008-2009 148Apps. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.