The Money. The Fame. The Apps

The Money. The Fame. The Apps.

Welcome to the 2010 Calling All Innovators – North America contest, presented by Nokia and AT&T. We’re challenging developers to create new applications and games for the 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, currently downloading 2.5 million times per day.

Fifty-one (51) cash prize winners worth a total of $4.025M! Four (4) marketing winners worth $5.8M! 500 Symbian device winners!

Two Grand Prize Winners each win a total of $250K in cash and nearly $2M in marketing of their winning app or game. Two Grand Prize runners-up each win a total of $150K in cash and $1M in marketing of their winning app or game. Fifty one (51) developer will win cash prizes: Seventeen (17) Category Winners each win $150K; seventeen Category Runners-up each win $50K; and seventeen Category 3rd place each win $25K. And 500 developers will win a new Nokia Symbian device based on how their app or game performs on Ovi Store.

The Nokia N8 is a powerful Symbian 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 O/S, to create the next generation of apps for the Nokia N8 and Ovi Store.

You can develop 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, Maemo, and in the future, MeeGo
2. Web developers: Nokia Web Runtime Plug-Ins, including Adobe Flash Lite 4.0

You can develop games for the Nokia N8 with Qt or the Symbian^3 platform SDK, or Flash:

1. For casual and 2D games: Nokia Qt SDK 1.0
2. For high performance, hardware accelerated and 3D games: OpenGL ES using the Symbian Platform SDK 0.9
3. For Flash games - 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.