Sprint has recently started a competition to find some of the best apps that utilize their “ultra fast” 4G network. With 5 categories: Multimedia, Gaming, Productivity, Social, and Entertainment, apps will be placed for judging by an all-star panel of judges from companies such as Sprint itself, WIRED, and ars technica.
The winner of each category will receive a price pack with the following:
- $50,000 cash
- 1 year PDP Membership
- 250 hours for Virtual Developer Lab
- HTC EVO 4G device with 1 year service
This looks very promising and will, at the very least, spark interest in developers to create innovative, intuitive, and new apps for the Android platform in the coming months. For further details or if you are an interested developer you can register at the information site here.
The Categories
- Video, Multimedia, & Augmented Reality:
- As mobile devices begin to incorporate increasingly powerful cameras
and video processors, the demand for apps that utilize hardware in new
and exciting ways continues to grow. From augmented reality programs
that put arresting animation in a user’s palm to live video streaming and video editing, this is the category for apps that push the outer limits of today’s mobile video capabilities.
- As mobile devices begin to incorporate increasingly powerful cameras
- Games:
- This is the quest for the very best brainteasers, puzzles, battles, races, matches and more. From tech savvy designs that push hardware to the max to mind-bending quizzes that build brainpower, winning the gaming category will require a truly unique offering that will captivate and engage audiences for hours on end.
- Productivity, Business, & Utilities:
- Does the app make today’s business warrior faster, leaner and smarter? Will it help burgeoning entrepreneurs cut crucial corners to maximize potential profits? Maybe it’s a key utility that will elegantly organize files for simple mobile browsing. The idea here is to undermined business schools everywhere and put powerful tools and tricks in the hands of forward-thinking executives.
- Social Networking:
- Staying dialed in to friends’ perpetual digital updates while on the go is an increasingly fragmented endeavor. As social networks flourish and increase in scope and size, it’s more necessary than ever to have a solid app or two that can easily manage the ups and downs of your feeds, photo albums and micro-manifestos.
- Entertainment:
- If it’s an app that can quench a thirst for celebrity gossip updates, dynamically create customized streaming playlists of today’s hottest pop tunes or figure out the perfect algorithm for conquering the next fantasy football showdown, this is the category. For all the fun apps that don’t quite jive with one of the other groupings, this is the catchall category.
