Chinese company wins Nokia's global innovators prize

Nokia Corporation announced here on Tuesday the final winners in its global Calling All Innovators contest for mobile applications and solutions to help improve the quality of life on the planet. A Chinese company won the grand prize in the Technology Showcase Category.

Challenged to create applications to improve the quality of life around the world, the grand prize winners of Calling All Innovators are Green Drive by Road-Guard (Israel) in the Eco-Challenge category; Nano Ganesh by Santosh Ostwal (India) in the Emerging Markets category; and X Dancery by Simlife Ltd. (China) in the Technology Showcase category.

X Dancery, this application, fully optimized for the S60 5th Edition's touch screen UI and motion sensor technology, and with advanced 3D-graphics rendering capabilities, analyzes any MP3 file to automatically generate a unique tempo-based game for each selected musical track.

Each of the grand prize winners received a cash award of 25,000 U.S. dollars and will receive help in distributing their mobile applications to consumers worldwide.

First place winners in each category received 10,000 U.S. dollars, and second-place winners each received 5,000 dollars.

They were honored at the Forum Nokia Calling All Innovators Award Ceremony during the four-day annual GSMA Mobile World Congress starting from Monday.

They were selected from among nearly 1,000 developers who competed in Eco-Challenge, Emerging Markets and Technology Showcase categories with mobile applications designed to contribute toward building a better world.

"The high caliber of these nine winners in the first iteration of Calling All Innovators underscores the remarkable, ongoing creativity and innovation that currently defines the mobile developer community around the globe," said Rob Taylor, Director of Forum Nokia.

In the next round of Calling All Innovators, Forum Nokia is challenging developers to create applications that will enhance the use of mobile devices in real-world scenarios, in the following categories: Internet Innovation, Flash, and Emerging Markets.

Nokia's global developer program, Forum Nokia connects developers to tools, technical information, support, and distribution channels they can use to build and market applications around the globe.