14 DAY TRIAL // Recently, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has unveiled the Regional Winners of its 2010 Super Apps Developer Challenge, which kicked off in April this year. According to the company, the challenge brought together a large number of developers with interesting ideas.
The development of Super Apps was RIM's response to an increasing competition on the mobile applications area, and to a wide range of contest that rival companies launched as means to attract developers on their side.
The contest was aimed at the development of applications that would be able to offer impressive experience to users, and all the necessary info that developers needed for building of solutions that sport Super App characteristics were delivered to those interested in the matter.
It appears that the contest was pretty popular within the developer community, as a number of almost 400 participants were accepted into the contest during the BlackBerry DEVCON.
Following deliberation, with involved the reviewing of all kind of applications, the mobile phone maker has announced regional winners: for North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
According to the company, each of these winning applications is capable of offering a way in which the BlackBerry platform can be leveraged for the delivery of compelling software solutions.
While nothing was announced officially on the matter, we should expect for RIM to launch a new developer contest in the near future, so as to lure even more of them towards its mobile operating system.
Here's what the company notes on these winners via a recent blog post:
North American Winner: Poynt, developed by Multiplied Media Corporation, is designed to enable users to find businesses, retailers, restaurants, movies, gas prices (US only) and weather information. It uses GPS or cell-site location to quickly deliver the information users need, whenever and wherever they need it.
Latin America Winner: Vlingo Plus – Voice App is the intelligent voice app that is designed to turn a user’s words into action. Developed by Vlingo Corporation, Vlingo enables users to simply speak to their BlackBerry to send a text or email message to any contact; search the web using Google or Yahoo!; call a friend; update their Facebook or Twitter status; use instant messengers; and, speak to virtually any application. It also reads incoming text and email messages while users are on the go.
Europe / Middle East / Africa Winner: Developed by Ubiest S.p.A., UbiNav EU is designed to turn a mobile device into a reliable GPS mapping solution with real-time turn by turn navigation on screen. Users can listen to the turn-by-turn vocal instructions and find whatever they need wherever they are. They can find, map, navigate to, or simply call over 10 million businesses listed within the database.
Asia Pacific Winner: Love Indonesia is an all-in-one guide for Indonesia on the BlackBerry. It is a free location-based lifestyle portal for BlackBerry designed to guide users in finding anything they need with its different search features. It provides regular reviews and discount promotions of merchants for each city in Indonesia, along with information on restaurants, hotels, shopping, movies, news, traffic, events and more.