Hong Kong-based Artificial Life, a provider of intelligent agent-based mobile technology and applications, announced that it has won the first prize of the mobile games section of the Mobile Applications Award 2004 issued by Ericsson for its innovative 3G product: V-Girl--your virtual girlfriend. The award was granted at the award ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland, by an independent jury and the attending audience of several hundred people involved in the mobile industry, who voted by real-time SMS. Eberhard Schoeneburg, CEO of Artificial Life, said "This global mobile award is a great honor for us. Thanks to Ericsson for the organization of the event and the award! We are very excited about it. We have worked hard during the last two years to come up with this very innovative and new mobile game and entertainment approach. V-Girl defines the future of mobile gaming and in our opinion creates a new standard for 3G mobile gaming applications.

For the first time a mobile game combines and makes use of all the main features of 3G networks and handsets. To name just a few of these features, V-Girl provides in a single application real time chat, real time video and audio streaming, text-to-speech, a huge amount of photo realistic 3-D animations, games within the game, user specific content delivery functions and a sophisticated user profiling and back office data mining capabilities."