NOKIA PRESS RELEASE
February 18, 2003
Nokia Announces Series 60 Challenge Winners
First Place Finishers Hail from China, Germany, Finland
CANNES, February 17, 2003 - at the GSM Congress - Nokia today
announced the selection of nine software developers from around the
world as winners in the 2002 Series 60 Challenge. The competition
recognizes and provides marketing opportunities for best-of-breed
applications that run on Nokia's Series 60 Platform.
In the Productivity category, Nokia awarded first prize to Germany's
Symbianware for its Stacker memory-saving compression program.
China's Noumena won in the Entertainment category with MGS Karting, a
battle and racing game hybrid, and Finland's OpenBit won in Messaging
for Photographer, a camera enhancement program.
Runners-up included Germany's Epocware and Finland's Patria Ailon
(productivity); Sweden's Jadestone and Finland's Sumea
(entertainment); and Germany's Mobileways and Shape Services
(messaging).
In addition to a new Nokia 3650 device built on the Series 60
Platform, each of the nine winners and runners-up receives free Nokia
OK certification for the applications submitted to the contest, which
can be used in marketing and advertising these applications, and the
opportunity to demonstrate the winning applications with Nokia at
tradeshows throughout 2003. Also, first place finishers have
additional options in obtaining free technical support from Forum
Nokia, Nokia's global developer outreach program. All submitted
consumer applications will be presented to Club Nokia and will be
considered for inclusion in future Nokia marketing campaigns. Club
Nokia is an on-line community and loyalty program for Nokia phone
owners.
"The Challenge gives developers an opportunity to showcase their
talents and gain access to the global market," stated Gerard Bruen,
Director, Series 60 program, Forum Nokia. "We're thrilled by the
number and quality of submissions this year and look forward to
expanding the program in 2003."
Series 60 is a comprehensive software platform for smart phones,
offering rich communications and enhanced applications. The Series 60
Platform consists of the key telephony and personal information
management applications, the browser and messaging clients, and a
complete and modifiable user interface, all designed to run on top of
the Symbian OS, an operating system for advanced, data enabled mobile
phones.
Here's a close-up look at the top prizewinners:
Stacker is a fully automated and reliable compression system based on
the industry standard LZ77 compression algorithm that makes the
maximum amount of system memory available at all times.
MGS Karting is a 3D Karting racing game that uses a new audio engine
and multiple MP3 sound tracks mixed real time. It features Bluetooth
support for multiplayer competition.
Photographer is camera software for Series 60, which enhances image
quality and provides zoom, panorama and trick camera functions.
The Challenge was open to registered Forum Nokia developers in
Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific who submitted MMS, Java or Symbian OS
applications that run on the Series 60 Platform. Judging was done by
executives from Nokia and other Series 60 licensees who looked at
innovation, usefulness and quality.
More information, including screen shots of the winning applications,
can be found at www.forum.nokia.com/series60