Local mobile shopping app, PriceCheck, has won the BlackBerry app of the year category in the BlackBerry Achievement Awards, beating competition from more than 100 000 apps from around the world.
Formerly the Wireless Achievement Awards, BlackBerry's annual Achievement Awards sees the best BlackBerry apps from across the world going head-to-head for gold in five categories: app of the year, putting customers first, mobile innovation of the year, making the world a better place, and entrepreneur of the year.
This year two home-grown apps - PriceCheck and Waytag - competed for first place against 15 top apps worldwide. Winners were announced at BlackBerry Live in Orlando, Florida on Wednesday.
Founded in 2006, PriceCheck (part of the MIH Internet Africa group) is an e-shopping platform that facilitates price comparison across a range of products. The mobile app, available for free on the BlackBerry 10 platform, enables shoppers to scan product barcodes or search for specific products and receive a list of where - and with what price tag - the product is available.
According to PriceCheck GM Andre de Wet, the Web site provides offers for more than 30 million products for sale in SA, from both online and brick-and-mortar stores.
De Wet says the PriceCheck team is proud to have come out tops competing against thousands of what he says are remarkable BlackBerry 10 apps from around the world. "This underlines that South Africa has world-class talent when it comes to mobile software development. We also see it as recognition of the value our app brings to mobile consumers."
Alexandra Zagury, MD for South and Southern Africa at BlackBerry, says the fact that a South African app won BlackBerry's App of the Year award is "a true example of mobile-first innovation on BlackBerry".
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