Product category: Design and Development Hardware
News Release from: Trolltech
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 17 April 2007
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The Qtopia Greenphone Developer Challenge is a global contest for innovative development of Linux-based mobile phone applications
Trolltech has begun Qtopia Greenphone Developer Challenge, a global contest for innovative development of Linux-based mobile phone applications. Entrants can create their applications using either the community or commercial version of Qtopia Phone Edition. The Developer Challenge is a two-phase competition designed to spark the creative imagination of the developer community.
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In Phase One, entries are accepted in these categories: best original application; best improvement of an existing Qtopia Phone Edition application; best end to end service; best user interface experience; and best in the impossible to classify category.
Entries will be judged on a set of weighted criteria including functionality, ease of use without written documentation, performance and efficiency, and originality.
25 entries will be chosen as Phase One winners.
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Winning entrants from Phase One can move into Phase Two where the categories are best open source and best commercial application.
Judging in Phase Two is similar to Phase One however entries must be shown on a Qtopia Greenphone.
Two entries will be chosen as the final Developer Challenge winners.
25 Phase One winners will each receive a Qtopia Greenphone, a critical element for entry into Phase Two of the contest.
The final two Developer Challenge winners will each receive US $5000, a Qtopia Phone Edition Professional licence, and airfare with conference registration to either the Munich or California location of Trolltech Developer Days 2007, Trolltech's annual developer conference.
Each qualified entry will be reviewed by an esteemed panel of judges representing a wide variety of interests and backgrounds.
They are: Frank HP Fitzek - Associate Professor, Head of Future Vision and Mobile Device group, Aalborg University, Denmark; Holger Freyther - Handhelds.org, Student; John Lombardi - Editor, Linuxdevices.com; Phil Torrone - Editor, Make Magazine; and Tony Rizzo - Analyst, 451 Group.
Each category will also have judge representation from members of Trolltech's development team and management.
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