Nokia has announced during Nokia World 2007 in Amsterdam the winners in the first “Open C Challenge”. The contest fostering developers to port applications with Nokia’s Open C to S60 mobile platform.
Sponsored by Forum Nokia, Orange and the Symbian Developer Network, the Open C Challenge asked for open source applications built for mobile of desktop that have been ported to Symbian making used of Open C environment.
The criteria for the contest emphasized the developer’s innovation, creativity and degree of difficulty in the porting process, as well as the quality and usability of the applications themselves.
The winners have been:
- Sittiphol Phanvilai from Bangkok for his MobiTubia application. $10,000. 25,000 lines of code ported!!!
- Pu Zhihua for LiveTraffi. $5,000.
- TongRen for the MobiClass. $3,000.
- Steve DeLaney for ViewRight. $2,000.
Via NewLC
