Samsung Announces Winners of Bada Developer Challenge, All Winner Apps Free for a Month!
Dec 8, 2010 archive, cellphone, samsung, smartphone
Samsung this week has announced the winners of “bada Developer Challenge”, an diligence development contest for the bada platforms which took situation between May and December in 2010. The bada Developer Challenge attracted 2,077 teams from 54 countries and 34 winning applications have North Korean won a aggregate of US $2.7 million. Together with the announcement, Samsung is now oblation 31 of 34 winning applications free people for this calendar month. So snap all the applications now with your Bada smartphones! Check out the free apps promotion page here.
The grand piano prize winner, who won US$300,000, was Mooncoder in Poland. The winner’s application “Little Sailor” is a 3D yacht racing biz that allows users to experience a realistic sailing simulation – with the help of intricate controls and colorful graphics. The LittleSailor application scored highest in the creativeness, commercial potential drop, functionality, and user-friendliness categories.
“We are extremely happy to receive the round top prize in the contest organized by Samsung Electronics, a leading global company that is devising inroads in software system and applications,” said Maciej Komosinski and Szymon Ulatowski, of Mooncoder which developed Little Sailor. “We believe bada will evolve into a platforms that offers great opportunities to developers through Samsung’s potency in the mobile scene of action. We will continue to union developer initiatives organized by Samsung in ordering to create more interesting and useful applications.”
Eight other winners also received US $century,000 apiece, including badaSports, Doogie, Bang, WAMO_Camera, TouchRetouch, Bling-Bling Reader and Parking.
The award ceremony was held at the bada Developer Day in Seoul on December 8, which marked bada’s first base-class anniversary. At the bada Developer Day, Samsung provided a guide to development applications for bada; including technical foul support regarding the platforms as well as more selective information about the authentication and registration process of Samsung Apps, the application market for bada.
In addition to the Samsung Wave – the first bada smart phone- launched in June, Samsung has launched additional models such as the Wave II, Wave525, Wave533, Wave575 and Wave723. Sales of bada handsets ar expected to reaching 5 meg units before the end of 2010.
Samsung Apps, Samsung’s diligence storage, has grown with the success of the Wave series; the total figure of diligence downloads worldwide is expected to surpass 50 meg by December, demonstrating the revolt popularity of bada apps among smart phone users. Launched in France, Italy and the UK in September 2009, Samsung Apps is now available in 118 countries.
Samsung has been supporting developers in a figure of shipway; mainly through its online bada Developer site and also through offline topical anesthetic Developer Day events held regularly around the earth. To build a better mobile eco-organization, Samsung plans to introduce additional developer support programs, which include online and offline education courses for bada computer programing, online Q&ere;A’s via the bada Developer web site and documentation for the publishing of bada technical books.
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