In celebration of their new 360 handset, Vodafone have announced a total of one million Euros in prize money up for grabs for the best mobile phone app.
The Vodafone App Star competition is open to any developer across the world but developers must choose to submit their app into one of eight markets: UK, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal or Spain and the best entry in each market will receive 25,000 Euros.
The second and third best entries will receive 15,000 Euros and 10,000 Euros. The winning entries from each market will then progress to a second round of the competition, where the top eight apps will be put to the public vote.
The app with the highest number of public votes will win an additional 75,000 Euros, with the second place app receiving 25,000 Euros.
It’s the second time the company has launched the initiative with Smartrunner, a sports-tracking and geo-tracking app being voted as the best app the first time around.
So do you have an app idea? There is an online tutorial here, so anyone can have a go! According to Vodaphone "creating widgets (as they call them) is easy, "You don’t have to write a line of Java or any proprietary code and you don’t have to understand anything about mobile development. The files are packaged up into a zip file and downloaded to the phone." So there you go.
Details can be found here: http://widget.developer.vodafone.com/en/
Competition closes on 31 March 2010.
One thought on “Build the Best Mobile Phone App and Win One Million Euros!”
It is a great idea to come up with such a competition. But I feel like people will not show a lot of inclination towards it as some of the greatest mobile phone applications and technologies have been unveiled in the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona recently this year.