14 DAY TRIAL // Nokia has just unveiled the winners of its “2011 Calling All Innovators” global developer competition that kicked-off earlier this year.
We already reported last week about Poynt, the winner of the Productivity & Tools Category, who was awarded $150,000.
Today we learned about the grand prize winners in the 2011 Calling All Innovators developer competition, which were recently unveiled at a developer event in Sunnyvale, California.
Nokia offered a pool of cash and prizes valued at $10 million for the 2011 Calling All Innovators developers competition.
According to the Finnish handset maker, over 800 entries were received from developers in 57 countries with US-based developers submitting the most entries.
Nokia awarded 10tons for winning the overall game category with the Sparkle application and BLStream for winning the overall application category with their ShutterPro Premium app.
Sampo Toyssy, co-author of the Sparkle app from 10tons, commented “We were surprised and feel greatly honored as we know many great games were submitted. Sparkle is one of our most successful products in Nokia's Ovi Store and the extra marketing promotion Nokia will do on our behalf is a tremendous boost for us.”
Although developers were able to submit entries in 17 different game and application categories, the U.S. led in winning the most of the top category winner spots.
Unfortunately for them, the two grand prize winners were from Finland and grand prize runner-up developers Poynt Corporation for Poynt and Clapfoot Games for Tank Hero are Canadians.
It is also worth mentioning that all category top winners each received $150,000 with the two grand prizes winners receiving an additional $100,000 and a marketing promotion package valued at $1.9 million.
The full list of category winners and the cash prize amounts can be found at Nokia's 2011 Calling All Innovators website.