So here they are the Winners of the 2009 Flash Lite Developer Challenge, a huge congratulations to you all. We’ve been really impressed with all the hard work and improvements in design year on year.
A large number of the entrants used the Flash Lite Distributable Player, to ensure consistency across their supported devices. It’s great to see the pick up on this and the community begin to release content with the latest runtime. In a post last week I announced the Mobile Packager 1.1 release, and this will undoubtedly serve to bring these applications to market.
Winning developers will have their applications placed in either the New & Cool, Featured or Recommended areas on GetJar.com and m.getjar.com for durations equivalent to the value of their prize. With only about 100 total slots available per month, this gives them guaranteed visibility among the more then 45,000 apps on GetJar to over 10 million unique app hungry consumers coming from 200 countries around the globe. Their apps will also be visible across all the channels GetJar works with including stores on Opera Mini, 3UK, Virgin Mobile (France), Vodafone (Ireland) and about 12 other carriers / mobile operators.
Infotainment Winner & Grand Prize Winner:
Flash Cell Ltd (UK)
MicroFilm is an application that allows you to watch the latest Cinema and DVD film trailers on a S60 device. The application is built around a favourites based community where members can discover new films and participate in a social community. Watch the latest film releases, book tickets, rent and buy DVD’s – Find out what your friends are watching – Discover like minded neighbours – Browse through films using a tag cloud interface – Use genres and user generated tags to sort through films.
Lifestyle Category Winner:
Ribot (UK)
Little Spender is a simple, fun spender tracker. The aim is to enable even the most casual of Little Spenders to see where exactly their hard-earned cash goes every month. Along with a bit of fun and simplicity along the way, they’ll hopefully save a little money too.
Game Category Winner:
BlueskyNorth (UK)
Ficklebox is a fast moving puzzle fun as you try to match up chains or groups of colored blox for big scores, but be careful as these blox have a mind of their own! They can help you or harm you as you race to complete stages against the clock.
Description: Block matching puzzle with extra ‘flash enabled’ personality as the Blox come to life.Make chains or groups of matching colored blox to score points.
Social Networking Category Winner:
Ian Moreira de Andrade (Brazil)
Mr. Postman, the Twitter reader and publisher while on the go. Based on a timeline concept, Mr. Postman won’t let you miss a tweet: access the most important features with a single click, keep up with your friends, celebs or news live updates and send yours. No mess. No crowded information.
Sports Category Winner:
Little Big Ideas (Denmark)
GolfBox is a golfers management app. Book tee-times, invite friends to play, view leaderboards, track handicap, read golf news and much more. Featuring both interstitial apps and traditional banner ads. GolfBox is a mobile extension to the website that enable you to search available teetimes and book tee times on all Danish golf courses.
Innovation Award Winner:
Mobile Radicals (U.K.)
Big Game Huntr, is a location-based hunting game populated by user generated content based around communities of players. The premise of the game is to allow users to generate their own communities of hunts and promote social networking.
People’s Choice:
IKS Mobile (Poland)
Cubic Republic, somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere beyond the clouds live funky, little, cubic creatures. Take part in entertaining challenges on the levitating land pieces. Engage in the community, play multiplayer matches and have fun! Cubic Republic is a place of original & highly interactive quests. Intuitive gameplay makes it easy to grasp & simple to play. Multiplayer gaming on different devices let you engage anytime, anywhere. Prepare for great cross-platform entertainment!