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.

From Meego to Tizen

From Meego to Tizen 

Eight months after Nokia embarrassed Intel by withdrawing support for the MeeGo project, Intel has followed suit. On 27th September, Intel and Samsung announced the birth of a new mobile platform called Tizen. After only 19 months, MeeGo has been left parentless, and appears to be on life support. Tizen is, in fact, a successor of the Samsung Linux Platform, a reference platform of the LiMo operator consortium, with some components taken from the MeeGo stack.

The scenario is clear.  Quite unfortunate.