Nokia’s Apps for Ireland Competition
Nokia Ireland have a really cool compition on at the moment. All you have to do is come up with an idea for an App that can be used on a Nokia Phone. The prizes are listed below and it is definitely worth taking the time to enter because not only can you win one of these fabulous prizes but your application idea is also created into a real application and will be available on the Ovi Store for downloading.
Thousands Get Involved with Nokia’s Apps for Ireland Competition
Nokia Ireland is delighted to announce that over 2,200 applications have been submitted to the Apps for Ireland competition so far. The competition, which encourages ordinary people to come up with simple ideas for applications for Nokia mobile phones, can be viewed on the Nokia Ireland Facebook page. Since the start of the competition, over 6,000 votes have been cast by the general public for their favourite app idea, with an average of 25,000 page views per week over the past five weeks!
The winning apps ideas to date have included everything from fly fishing information to shared social calendars and an app to aid colour blind people. Other quirky app ideas, which are going forward to the final, include an app to tell you everything about slippers, a wazzup app to keep you informed of the latest gigs and things to do in Dublin and a customisable soundboard that uses the mic in your phone to record homemade sound effects.
Running until Friday, 7th May 2010, Nokia’s Apps for Ireland competition is broken up into three categories consisting of a Sports App, a Lifestyle App covering fashion, music, social and culture and a General App, that will cover everything else. Each week the App idea with the most votes in each category wins a weekly prize and goes through to the final. Apps for Ireland includes Ireland’s first example of SMS integration with Facebook, which enables keen entrants to keep up to date with how their app is doing, even if they are away from their PC. By the end of the competition, there will be a total of eight App ideas, from which the judging panel will have to choose the overall winner in each category.
Nokia is delighted to have an experienced panel of industry experts on board to judge the eight finalists including Today FM DJ and blogger, Ray Foley, fashion blogger Laura Whiston from www.whisty.wordpress.com, Internet entrepreneur, Pat Phelan and Shane McAlister from Mobanode. The winner of the best app in each category will get their application created by Mobanode and made available on The Ovi Store, Nokia’s online platform for applications.
The overall prize for each category:
Sports: Create your own VIP Sports Weekend for you and your friends. Choose from a Corporate Box at the Rugby, A VIP Trip to The Champions League, or create your own!
Lifestyle: Choose from a specially commissioned outfit from the Nokia Young Fashion Designer of the Year, a €3k shopping spree with a celebrity stylist, a VIP Concert Weekend, or create your own ultimate weekend for you and your mates.
General: Choose from a luxury holiday, a home entertainment system, or create your own ultimate prize.
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