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Rhomobile Announces Additional Details for $10,000 Mobile Application Development Challenge

Posted on: Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 08:40 CDT

Mobile Application Development Challenge Expands Prize Packages and Extends Submission Deadline to May 24, 2009

CUPERTINO, Calif., April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Rhomobile today announced additional details for their Mobile Application Development Challenge including an extended deadline date and additional prize packages. To enter the contest, developers must complete a free registration available at the Rhomobile website by April 15, 2009. The contest promotes Rhomobile's Rhodes framework, which allows developers to write once to create native apps for all leading smartphones including iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android, and features a $10,000 grand prize.

"As a web developer I have always wanted to create mobile applications and now, with Rhomobile's Rhodes, I can develop for multiple mobile phones without having to learn additional heavy weight programming languages," said Makoto Inoue, a Mobile Application Development Challenge contestant. "The Rhomobile Mobile Application Development Challenge is a great opportunity for developers like myself to utilize Rhodes and push ourselves to be creative."

The Rhomobile Mobile Application Development Challenge was organized as a way to encourage developers to experiment with Open Source and the Rhodes framework, which allows developers to write native applications for smartphones using HTML templates. Rhomobile is encouraging contest submissions that utilize the access Rhodes provides developers to smartphone capabilities such as GPS, PIM contacts and camera.

"Rhodes allows developers to write once for all five major smartphones using HTML and Ruby, providing ease-of-use and efficiency in creating robust native applications," said Adam Blum, CEO of Rhomobile. "With the Mobile Application Development Challenge, we wanted to create an opportunity for developers around the globe to discover what Rhodes is capable of, while providing an incentive to push their creativity and our framework to the limits."

The Mobile Application Development Challenge submission deadline date has been extended to May 24, 2009, enabling developers to use the latest release of Rhodes 1.0, with a first prize of $10,000 to the individual or company building the best mobile application. Additional prize packages will include iPhone 3G 16GB, AT&T (HTC) Fuze with Windows Mobile, BlackBerry Storm smartphones, Nokia N97 and G2 Google Android phones. The grand prize of $10,000 will be announced on June 1, 2009 and additional prizes will be announced at a later date.

Contest Requirements

• Registration deadline: April 15, 2009
• Application submission deadline: May 24, 2009
• Applications must run on at least two device operating systems
• Applications must operate upon synchronized local data via RhoSync

Criteria for Judging

Rhomobile will evaluate submissions in the following areas:

• Application Originality: value proposition to end users and usefulness of the application
• User Experience: overall usability of the application
• Device Leverage: demonstration of device capabilities
• Code Quality: documentation and maintainability of the code

Availability

Register for the Mobile Application Development Challenge by April 15, 2009 at http://rhohub.com/contest.

The Rhodes framework is now available at http://www.rhomobile.com/download.

About Rhomobile

Rhomobile Inc., a privately held venture-backed company, provides Rhodes, the industry's first open source mobile framework. For more information on Rhomobile visit www.rhomobile.com

Rhomobile and Rhodes are registered trademarks of Rhomobile, Inc. All other registered or unregistered trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners.

Media Contact: Anders Steele FortyThree, Inc. 831.239.0960 anders@fortythreepr.com

SOURCE Rhomobile Inc.

Source: PR Newswire

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