With less than two weeks remaining to enter, Vodafone has revealed details of some of the entries for its €1 million (£900,000) Vodafone App Star competition. A cosmopolitan mix from across Europe sees some innovaive new mobile apps pushing location-based services to find and share anything from new friends and upcoming music gigs to the nearest chemist and even your own car.
The Vodafone App Star competition is open until 31 March, to any developer across the world. Recent entries have seen well-known developers such as Golden Gekko and Aperto Move going head-to-head with independent rising mobile app stars like Gino Micacchi, creator of ‘Mobnotes’. Developers can choose to submit their app into one of eight markets, including the UK, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal or Spain.
Transportation has been a popular theme for recent entrants, with ‘easycar’ enabling users to search and book a hire car quickly and simply; and Tussam Mobile providing up-to-the-minute information about local buses and trams in Seville, Spain. Dutch developer Peter Manuel has developed ‘CarFinder’, an app for users who occasionally forget where they hve parked their car. German Vodafone 360 users in need of a taxi will benefit from Aperto Move’s ‘TAXI deutschlandweit’ app. This is the first widely-available taxi ordering system for more than 3,000 taxis across Germany. The German developer has also recently submitted its ‘APOTHEKEN’ app, which helps users find local chemists that are on an emergency service and stay open all night.
In the lifestyle and entertainment arena, and well timed for the summer festival season, Dutch developer, Tribe of Noise, has submitted ‘The GigMap’, a free service for musicians and music venues to keep their fans up-to-date about the latest concerts. Golden Gekko’s ‘BioRhythm app’ also features in the entertainment category, providing users with a daily chart based on their date of birth, which calculates their physical, emotional and intellectual levels.
“We’ve been really impressed by the quality of apps that have been submitted to our competition. We’re still seeing some great entrants as developers across Europe continue to share their apps with us right up to the deadline,” says Lee Epting, Director of Content Services at Vodafone Group. “It’s been particularly great to see so many local apps being created for specific markets. Clearly, there is a lot of talent out there among the international developer community – we want to showcase these great ideas and properly reward the very best players for their innovation and vision.”
The best entry from each country will receive €25,000. The second and third best entries will receive €15,000 and €10,000 respctively. The winning entries from each market will then progress to a second round of the competition, where the top eight apps will be put to the public vote. The app with the highest number of public votes will win an additional €75,000, with the second place app receiving €25,000.
You can enter the Vodafone App Star competition here.
The Vodafone App Star competition is open until 31 March, to any developer across the world. Recent entries have seen well-known developers such as Golden Gekko and Aperto Move going head-to-head with independent rising mobile app stars like Gino Micacchi, creator of ‘Mobnotes’. Developers can choose to submit their app into one of eight markets, including the UK, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal or Spain.
Transportation has been a popular theme for recent entrants, with ‘easycar’ enabling users to search and book a hire car quickly and simply; and Tussam Mobile providing up-to-the-minute information about local buses and trams in Seville, Spain. Dutch developer Peter Manuel has developed ‘CarFinder’, an app for users who occasionally forget where they hve parked their car. German Vodafone 360 users in need of a taxi will benefit from Aperto Move’s ‘TAXI deutschlandweit’ app. This is the first widely-available taxi ordering system for more than 3,000 taxis across Germany. The German developer has also recently submitted its ‘APOTHEKEN’ app, which helps users find local chemists that are on an emergency service and stay open all night.
In the lifestyle and entertainment arena, and well timed for the summer festival season, Dutch developer, Tribe of Noise, has submitted ‘The GigMap’, a free service for musicians and music venues to keep their fans up-to-date about the latest concerts. Golden Gekko’s ‘BioRhythm app’ also features in the entertainment category, providing users with a daily chart based on their date of birth, which calculates their physical, emotional and intellectual levels.
“We’ve been really impressed by the quality of apps that have been submitted to our competition. We’re still seeing some great entrants as developers across Europe continue to share their apps with us right up to the deadline,” says Lee Epting, Director of Content Services at Vodafone Group. “It’s been particularly great to see so many local apps being created for specific markets. Clearly, there is a lot of talent out there among the international developer community – we want to showcase these great ideas and properly reward the very best players for their innovation and vision.”
The best entry from each country will receive €25,000. The second and third best entries will receive €15,000 and €10,000 respctively. The winning entries from each market will then progress to a second round of the competition, where the top eight apps will be put to the public vote. The app with the highest number of public votes will win an additional €75,000, with the second place app receiving €25,000.
You can enter the Vodafone App Star competition here.
It would be nice to also get your app submitted to the competition. It looks like some apps get blocked for no reason, without explanation...
Posted by: ECD | March 29, 2010 at 01:06 PM