Sunday, October 10, 2010

Nokia & AT&T 2010 Calling All Innovators North America developer contest for Nokia N8

Welcome to the 2010 Calling All Innovators – North America developer contest, presented by Nokia and AT&T. We’re challenging developers to create new applications and games for the new Nokia N8 and future Nokia devices for consumers in the U.S. and Canada. With $10 million in cash, devices, and marketing prizes up for grabs, now is the time for you to take advantage of Ovi Store’s global reach which gives you access to the world’s largest community of app-purchasing mobile consumers.

The Nokia N8 is a powerful Symbian^3 device that is a new platform for innovative developers to create advanced, graphically rich, high performance apps that will delight consumers in the U.S. and Canada. We challenge you to take maximum advantage of the new capabilities in both the N8 hardware and Symbian^3 O/S, to create the next level of apps for the Nokia N8 and Ovi Store. 

You can build apps for the Nokia N8 with Qt or Web Runtime:

  1. Symbian, Android, and iPhone developers: Nokia Qt SDK – the new way to build powerful native apps for Symbian^3, Maemo, and in the future, MeeGo
  2. Web developers: Nokia Web Runtime Plug-Ins, including Adobe Flash Lite 4.0
How to Enter

The App Submission Period is the period beginning on Sept 21st, 2010 at 12:01AM Eastern Time, and ending at 5:00PM Eastern Time on Friday, January 28th, 2011. 

STEP 1: Develop your app for the N8
STEP 2: Register as an Ovi Publisher at http://publish.ovi.com
STEP 3: Publish your app to the Ovi Store for the N8 in English for the USA and/or Canada.
STEP 4: During the App Submission Period, complete and submit the Contest Registration Form.
STEP 5: During the App Submission Period, complete and submit the App Submission Form for each App being entered in the contest. 

More info: http://www.callingallinnovators.com/10m/