Forum Nokia Calling All Innovators 2010

Forum Nokia’s Calling All Innovators competition is back again for 2010. Here’s the challenge to create great apps and content for Nokia mobile devices.

Here’s a video introduction:

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Contest Categories

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Eco/Being Green
Like its name implies, this category challenges developers to help save the planet with innovative, eco-friendly applications for use on Nokia devices.

Entertainment
Here’s your chance to submit apps that rock, and show off the coolest multimedia features that are available on the latest Nokia mobile devices. This includes music, multimedia and games.

Productivity
This category seeks mobile applications that make consumer’s daily lives easier and help them to be more efficient, such as utilities, business, or personal finance applications.

Life Improvement
This category seeks applications that positively affect the daily lives of people living in developing countries, and may include education, agriculture, health and more.

The deadline for the above categories is 10th June. (We are publishing this just a little before the deadline but we still hope this will be useful to some.)

This year, the contest also has a fifth category that truly stands alone:

Growth Economy Venture Challenge
Nokia’s Calling All Innovators competition has always been about trying to find the best big ideas for mobile applications from developers around the world. This year, Nokia is taking that desire to find big ideas to a whole new level. (This category is an entire challenge in itself, with a deadline of 31st July.)

Read this for more details on each category.

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Cash Prizes

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Grand Prize: 30,000 USD in cash.
2nd Prize: 15,000 USD in cash.
3rd Prize: 5,000 USD in cash.

Special prizes:
Best application for the Nokia N900: $50,000 (USD) in cash.
Best cross-platform application using Qt: $50,000 (USD) in cash.
Best mobile computing application: $50,000 (USD) in cash, plus the winner of this special prize will be included in a multi-million dollar global marketing campaign that will be used to help promote the winning app.
Best locally relevant application with global potential: $15,000 (USD) in cash.

More details and other non-cash prizes here.

Here’s a reason to be inspired, local company, 2C2P took part last year and won the Grand Prize under the Emerging Markets & Mobile Necessities Category.

Submit your entry now.

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