Samsung Smart App Challenge 2012

The contest offers $4.08 million in cash prizes and mega marketing support for app promotion to the top 80 apps including 60 Samsung Apps Super Apps and 20 Best S Pen Apps featuring the most creative GALAXY Note Stylus Pen (S Pen) functions.

Track	Winners	Judging Criteria	SDK & Tools
Samsung Apps Super Apps GALAXY Tab/Note App	Game 30 Non-Game 30	Highest download counts (Consumer Judging) Highest download counts on Samsung Apps Downloads counts per device group, OS version for Single App will be added up. (Identification criteria : App ID = ‘Package Name’)	Application should be built using Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) or a higher version. No language restriction on application
Best S Pen Apps GALAXY Note App with S Pen functionality	20	Basis of Review(Panel Judging) Entries will be scored on the creativity and originality among the apps featuring S Pen functionality enabled by Samsung S Pen SDK	Application should be built using Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) or a higher version. Developers must use the Samsung S Pen SDK library to integrates S Pen functionality. The application language must be English. (Application can support multiple languages including English.)

You can find out more about the challenge here.

Imagine Cup 2012 Windows Phone Challenge

Are you a student and mobile developer with a good idea? If so, then take Imagine Cup 2012 Windows Phone Challenge, sponsored by Nokia. Nokia will also help you to start creating game-changing ideas by offering several engaging development suggestions on the IdeasProject site in areas that include education, health, and the environment. Find an idea that matches your passion, and build a mobile app or content (sorry, games are not eligible).

Entries will be judged on themes, uniqueness, design, innovation, architecture, utility, and delight. In addition, all applications must adhere to the Imagine Cup 2012 Theme, ‘Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems’. The top three winning teams will receive a free trip to the Imagine Cup World Finals in Sydney, Australia, in July 2012. They will also win cash prizes: $8,000 (USD) for the first-place winning team; $4,000 (USD) for the second-place team; and $3,000 (USD) for the third-place winners. Other prizes will include Nokia Lumia phones.

In Round 1 of the challenge, student teams will need to create and submit an Application Summary and SketchFlow Prototype for a Windows Phone app that is inspired by an Imagine Cup 2012 Theme. Your Round 1 submissions are due by 13 March 2012. Round 2, which includes your actual entry file, will be due by 3 May 2012.

Get the Imagine Cup 2012 Windows Phone Challenge documents, download the tools, check out the complete rules, and register today.

Win a Sony Ericsson Xperia arc phone by just submitting an idea for a mobile app that can help solve global challenges

The countdown is running for the expiration of the deadline for the second stage of the "Technology for Good Apps Competition" organized by Sony Ericsson. All you have to do is to present a problem and a use case (scenario) where your idea for an app will help to solve global challenges in two key areas:
a) social and economic development
b) energy and climate change

The submission date is Monday, December 5th, 2011, by midnight Pacific Time and the prizes to be won are a Sony Ericsson Xperia arc phone and a Connect-to-Learn scholarship for a secondary school education will be given to a girl living in Sub-Saharan Africa in the winning team’s name.

Winners will be announced on the EAA website on December 16th.

You can read more at their website here.

Android Is Totally Blowing Away The Competition

Android now has an amazing 52.5% of the global smartphone market. It's stealing share from every other smartphone operating system other than iOS, which is basically flat.

Source: BusinessInsider