hSenid wins World Summit Award
FlipBeats designed and developed by hSenid Outsourcing won the United Nations
World Summit Awards 2016 under the World’s Best Digital Content in the
Entertainment and Lifestyle category. The event was held in Singapore earlier
this month.
Head of hSenid Outsourcing, Sachi Wickremage said, “This is our biggest global
achievement to date. Not only does this award take our company to another level,
but this recognition also gives Sri Lanka, which is a United Nations member
country, a huge boost on an international platform.”
Chairman hSenid Group, Dinesh B. Saparamadu said, “This is an outstanding
recognition for FlipBeats having competed and won against tough industry peers
on an international platform. I am very proud of Sachi and his team and commend
them on this incredible feat.”
FlipBeats is one of the first ever music apps to be available for Apple Watch
running on watchOS. It’s already ranked as one of the Best Music Apps on the
Apple AppStore and GooglePlay Store. The app is unique, intuitive and
customizable with the most advanced audio configuration to create a studio-like
listening experience.
Newest addition to its long list of features is Free Streaming Music, which the
community has already started to fall in love with.The app runs on all Android
and Apple iOS devices including the Apple Watch. FlipBeats has been favourably
reviewed in internationally respected websites such as Engadget, LifeHacker and
AndroidGuys.
The app’s smart energy saving mode ‘Black Edition’ reduces 75% of the device’s
power consumption by turning a majority of the display pixels off, yet creating
a stunning visual effect with contracting colors. It is powered with special
ergonomic features such as “Sound Health Profile” and comes in six different
languages.
This award adds to the multi local and regional awards received by hSenid
Outsourcing. In 2015, FlipBeats was the winner at the mBillionth Award under the
Media and Entertainment category, beating several international peers. In 2014,
the app won Best App of the Year at the eSwabhimani Awards 2014, Finalist at
Asia Pacific ICT Alliance 2014, and several awards at BCS National Best Quality
Software Awards 2014.
The World Summit Awards are a highly diverse and democratic awards system that
selects and promotes the world’s best digital innovations from over 178 UN
member countries, that has an impact on society. Initiated in 2003 in the
framework of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (UNWSIS), WSA
contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals agenda by recognizing local
digital content with an impact on society, demonstrating the richness and
diversity of innovative applications. |