BlackBerry Partners Fund announced the Regional Winners of the "Super Apps" Developer Challenge.
- North American Winner - Poynt,
which is developed by Multiplied Media Corporation, enables users to
find businesses, retailers, restaurants, movies, gas prices (US only)
and weather information. It uses GPS or cell-site location to quickly
deliver the information users need, whenever and wherever they need it,
to their BlackBerry smartphones.
- Latin America Winner - Vlingo Plus - Voice App
is the intelligent voice app that turns a user's words into action.
Developed by Vlingo Corporation, Vlingo enables users to simply speak to
their BlackBerry smartphone to send a text or email message to any
contact; search the web using Google or Yahoo!; call a friend; update
their Facebook or Twitter status; use instant messengers; and speak to
virtually any application. It also reads incoming text and email
messages while users are on the go.
- Europe / Middle East / Africa Winner - Developed by Ubiest S.p.A., UbiNav EU
turns a BlackBerry smartphone into a reliable GPS mapping solution with
real-time turn-by-turn navigation on screen. Users can listen to the
turn-by-turn vocal instructions and find whatever they need wherever
they are. They can find, map, navigate to, or simply call over 10
million businesses listed within the database.
- Asia Pacific Winner - Love Indonesia
is an all-in-one guide for Indonesia on BlackBerry smartphones. It is a
free location-based lifestyle portal that guides users in finding
anything they need with its different search features. It provides
regular reviews and discount promotions of merchants for each city in
Indonesia, along with information on restaurants, hotels, shopping,
movies, news, traffic, events and more.
"This
is the biggest and most exciting BlackBerry Partners Fund Developer
Challenge yet. We not only exceeded the number of submissions in past
years, but also saw tremendous innovation across the apps that we
evaluated during the judging process," said Kevin Talbot, Co-managing
Partner at BlackBerry Partners Fund. "Congratulations to this year's
winners for taking home top honors in their app category and region.
They developed extremely high caliber apps that deliver a great user
experience and exemplify the new generation of 'must have' apps that
people cannot live without."
Applications in this year's
BlackBerry Partners Fund Developer Challenge were judged on quality,
user experience and how effectively they incorporated "Super App"
characteristics. The BlackBerry Application Platform allows developers
to quickly and easily build applications that seamlessly share
information and interact with core BlackBerry applications or other
third party applications. These applications are personalized and
contextualized and can integrate with a BlackBerry smartphone's inbox,
calendar, address book and other native BlackBerry applications to
deliver a highly engaging user experience.
Participants in this
year's BlackBerry Partners Fund Developer Challenge competed for a total
prize package valued at over US$1.5 million.