Pocketlife, a mobile social networking app that we’ve covered a few times here at TNA, has been named as one of the winners of the “Apps on Maps” Category in Nokia’s Calling All Innovators awards.

The award sees the Aussie/NZ development team sharing in more than $250,000 in prizes.

Over 1,700 submissions for the awards (which included 3 other categories) were received from developers in 85 countries signaling a strong answer to Nokia’s challenge to think big and create mobile applications and services that can help build a better mobile user experience.

Purnima Kochikar, vice president, Forum Nokia Developer Community, Nokia, had this to say about the Award process:

“The quantity and quality of the applications we received are astounding,”

“We encourage our developer community to work with us to extend their market reach, taking advantage of our global presence, global distribution through Ovi Store and local market knowledge. Turning the spotlight on our developers in marketing efforts like Calling All Innovators is just one way we can expose the best mobile applications from our developer community to consumers around the world.”

Below are some exlusive screenshots of Pocketlife running on the Nokia N97

Congratulations guys! It’s really good to see local technology being recognised as world-leading.