14 DAY TRIAL // Sprint, the first carrier to offer 4G services in the United States, has just announced the winners of the Sprint 4G App Challenge. During the competition, developers were invited to submit their apps to the five available categories: entertainment, gaming, productivity, social networking and multimedia.
According to Sprint, all “submissions were based on four criteria: creativity, intuitive navigation, functionality and design.”
The winners have been decided by a jury comprising of product and technology executives from Sprint, editors from WIRED, Reddit and Ars Technica.
Sprint 4G App Challenge Winners:
- Entertainment Andrei Goumilevski, Tallahassee, Fla.- NASAImages, the application showcases 4,000 space images from the NASA APOD site and uses Sprint's 4G network for download.
- Gaming Rob Miley, St. Charles, Mo. - Say What? Mobile Game Say What? is the mobile version of the kids game Telephone, where one person whispers a phrase in someone's ear and then that person would repeat what they heard to the next person.
- Productivity Rajan Singh, San Jose, Calif. - Recipe Search Recipe Search is a reverse recipe finder app.
- Social Networking Carmen Delessio, Pound Ridge, N.Y. - BFF Photo - consumers can use the app to view photo albums, friends' albums and take and upload photos and videos from Facebook.
- Multimedia Jason Shah, Chicago, Ill. - Mediafly Mobile, users can organize and discover podcasts, audio, video, radio and streams from their Android phone.
The prizes consisted in each category's winner getting $50,000, as well as a choice of an HTC EVO 4G or Samsung Epic 4G with a one year of Sprint service, a one-year membership to the Sprint Professional Developer Program (including 250 hours in the Virtual Developer Lab) and an invitation to WIRED's VIP party during the 2011 International CES in Las Vegas.
Those who want to try any of the winning applications can download them via Android Market.