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The Calling All Innovators 'Top 10 App Wizard widgets'
Published by Steve Litchfield at 17:57 UTC, August 3rd 2010
The 'Best RSS Apps' section of Nokia's 2010 Calling All Innovator competition has been judged and a top 10 Ovi App Wizard apps (actually Web runtime widgets) listed, based on 'Innovativeness', 'Cumulative number of downloads on July 15th 2010' and 'Quality of marketing materials'. They're all covered below, with brief comments and screenshots, in case you should want to look any of them out(!).
Here's the Ovi App Wizard, should you want to have a crack at creating your own. And don't forget the official All About Symbian entry, detailed here, though it didn't make the top 10, sadly!
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In no particular order, the top 10 finalists for the Ovi App Wizard competition were:
- Alessandro Pace: FlashLite4Nokia (Firmware and release news for Nokia phones)
- Dale Rankine: Toy Tragic (a nice homely blog about toys and collectables)
- Hany Gohary: GoNintendo (as the name suggests, Nintendo game news)
- Chintan Umraliya: MobApps.org (phone - mainly Nokia - news blog)
- Steve Litchfield: The Phones Show (hey, it's me! Uniquely, not one, but four separate feeds in the one runtime widget, with fortnightly video shows and weekly audio podcasts)
- Oscar Iñiguez de la Torre Bernabeu: PickUp Lines (a rather trivial feed rip?)
- Nur Nachman Eytan: Purple Cookie (a stylish and well put together recipe blog)
- Jussi Soro: DJ Jussi Soro Application
(I couldn't find this in the store on my N97... very strange!) - David Adhira: What Miami (as it suggests, things to do in Miami)
- Jean-Francois Barsoum: Skeptical Science (regularly updated blog backing up global warming)
Finally, there's a special cash prize for the widget with the most downloads by the end of August apparently - and this is enough to cause me to shed all propriety and nudge you towards launching the Ovi Store client and installing my 'The Phones Show' widget on one or all of your phones right now. Go on, you know you want to.... 8-)
Steve Litchfield, All About Symbian, 3rd August 2010
News Discussion
It's possible the E90 might be too old, though?
It's a fairly pointless wizard just created to inflate the Ovi store app list.
It would have been better to make a web shortcut app that basically allows you to create a widget shortcut to any web site or RSS feed you like, without having to have an app published for each site.
However, please note that in your story you state that: "Nokia's 2010 Calling All Innovator competition has been judged ..." However, the only part that has been completed is the release of the Top 10 list for the Ovi app wizard category.
The rest of the 2010 Calling All Innovators competition for mobile app developers (4 categories for app submissions: Entertainment, Productivity, Eco/Being Green; and Life Improvement) is still being finalized. The winners in those 4 categories will be announced at Nokia World/Nokia Developer Summit in September. The main portion of the contest received submissions from around the world, and we will be very eager to share those results with you soon!
I hope you will consider clarifying your blog post. Thanks - Jason
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