Welcome to the CrackBerry App Awards 2010!

Following up on the 2009 CrackBerry Awards, we've changed things up slightly for 2010. This year we're focusing on BlackBerry applications only (last year we did accessories too), and we're announcing the winners live at the CrackBerry App Awards party in San Francisco during the BlackBerry Developer Conference.

The awards party takes place Wednesday, September 29th from 7 to 10pm and is being hosted by our friends at Xobni. The event is being sponsored by the BlackBerry Partners Fund so free drinks and good times are guaranteed. Shuttles will be going from DevCon to the party (if you're at DevCon, you won't miss it!). If you'd like to attend the CrackBerry App Awards, please RSVP here.

*The winners are in - click here to see the full list of results!!*

CrackBerry App Award 2010 Nominees

Please Note: These are nominee listings (no particular order). The winners will be announced at the CrackBerry Awards Party on September 29th.

There are 15 awards categories this year. 11 are application categories, three are developer awards (best app, game and theme developer of the year awards) and finally is the CrackBerry Editor's Choice awards, which don't have nominees but will be announced at the CrackBerry App Awards party. 

There are five finalists in each app and developer awards category. Nominees were both submitted by the CrackBerry community (see post) and by members of the Crack team (writers, moderators, etc.). Some categories had many more than five nominees, so the Crack Academy argued back and forth to narrow it down to the final five for this year. It wasn't an easy task, but it had to be done. Also, with so many types of apps available, we know not every single category of app is covered here - we couldn't let the awards get to out of control. Just as we have improved from 2009 to 2010, we'll stride to be even more all encompassing in 2011. Truly, just being nominated is an award in itself.

Best BlackBerry Developer of the Year Nominees 

This year's nominated developers are responsible for a lot of the apps, games and themes we know and love on BlackBerry. We've included just a sample in case you're not familiar with the name, but you'll want to check out their developer sites and pages to see everything else they've made too!

Best BlackBerry App Developer of the Year:

• BellShare - makers of BerryBuzz, BerryWeather and BerryReader
• Epic Apps - makers of Druglord Wars 2, Home to Phone and Call Blocker Pro
• ToySoft - makers of Profiler Pro, PictureDial2 and StockIcons 
• Xtreme Labs - makers of Urbanspoon, Fixmo Tools and NBA Gametime
• Chocolate Chunk Apps - makers of WiFi Media Backup, Remote Print and VLC Remote

Best BlackBerry Game Developer of the Year:

• Mobigloo - makers of Air Traffic Control, Pinball Deluxe and Nintaii
• Concrete Software - makers of PBA Bowling 2, Sid Meier's Pirates and Aces Solitaire
• Lone Dwarf Games - makers of Tank Recon 3D, Freddy Falling and Wrath
• Magmic - makers of NY Times Soduku, NY Times Crosswords and Texas Hold Em' 3
• Tafasa - makers of Parking Lot, Lights Out and Reversi

Best BlackBerry Theme Developer of the Year:

• WJD Designs - makers of Five Point Nine, X Droid and Opake
• Ninja Themes - makers of Blackout, UltiMatte Nano, 1OneSix
• Ahaz Designs - makers of Iris, Boss and Paragon
• Hedone Design - makers of OS6Like, B3 and SYLORA
• Elecite Themes -makers of Halcyon, Aeron and Infinity

CrackBerry App Award 2010 Winners!

Devcon 2010 has officially come to a close and it was a great success all around. Closing out the week with a BANG (literally, you should have heard the sound effects!) we held our first live CrackBerry App Awards on Wednesday night and had an amazing turnout. There was plenty of food, booze and good times to be had. HUGE thanks go to Xobni, the BlackBerry Partners Fund and everyone that came out to enjoy the party.

Lots of the winners were in attendance so we got to hand out our special spinning Cracky trophies in person. We're also doing up some special graphics for the winners to use on their websites, promo materials, etc. (we'll follow up directly with those shortly). We also have plenty of video from the night on the way, but for now keep reading for the full list of this years winners as well as some photos from the event.

Bartenders Getting Ready!

Restrooms Prepared for the onslaught of people!

The awards ceremony kicking off!

Jeff from Xobni gets things rolling

Xobni's well-deserved Cracky!