Verizon announced the winners of its V CAST Power Your Apps contest, and Car Locator won $50,000, 200% of their app revenue for the first year, and a free trip to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The other winners won $10,000 and a featured spot on V CAST Apps.
Lifestyle Winner Car Locator - The app lets you save your location when you park, and
Car Locator will help you locate and find it in Radar/Map/Split view. It features a parking timer, beam location to another phone/email, a home screen widget, and shake to save.
Connections Winner and People's Choice Winner for addtional 25,000 and 100% of their app revenue for the first year:
Color Connect - Set your status through the simple
and intuitive design. It is as simple as press and hold on your penguin.
Color Connect sets your wallpaper with your updated relationship and
mood status to help you notice those around you. By logging into
Facebook through Color Connect, you will unlock the special features
tied to charity. Color Connect donates a portion of profits to breast
cancer research and awareness.
Entertainment Winner
droplat - Members "check-in" at a geographic location using the website or a device-specific application. One may think of droplat as a combination of "check-in" services like "foursquare," "cloud-based" file hosting services like "Dropbox," and geocaching services.
Business Winner
Call Control - This app stops Telemarketers from calling you. You can block telemarketing and other spam telephone calls before they ring with Call Control, the first application for BlackBerry that automatically identifies telemarketing calls and blocks them from calling your phone. Crowd Sourcing, meet BlackBerry. How does it work? Call Control features the largest Community Blacklist of spam callers, containing over 2.5 million entries and growing, which is auto-updated to your BlackBerry.
Information Winner
Smarter Alarm - Smarter Alarm is a better way to wake up every morning. Instead of hearing an annoying alarm, you'll wake up to the soothing voice of a robotic British woman who will read personalized information to you. Would you like to know if you'll need to dress warmly today? How about the score to last night's football game? Smarter Alarm will read information that's important to you, such as weather, sports scores, stock prices, and the morning's headline news.