30 September 2006

Nokia N95 developers competition!
What you would like your device to do?

Nokia N95 Developer Competition is now up and running on Nokia Neseries site.

As the part of the N95 launch Nokia invite you to sign up for their newest online competition.

So don’t think twice and join the competition and submit your ideas for applications, widgets and other enchantments for the new Nokia N95 multimedia computer. You could win your very own device and be a featured contributor in Nokia Nseries developers' forums and events.

Competition sounds quite interesting and very promising and I truly hope that developer response will be great and that will end with some really cool and useful application. It’s the very well known fact that 3rd edition application scene doesn’t looks very brilliant, actually all useful applications we can count on the fingers of one hand and situation with the games are even worse.

There are numerous reasons for that; probably the most important is the very well known and not so popular code break, there are lot of breaks on source code level, and therefore none of the second edition applications doesn’t works on a third edition devices and that’s the really, huge problem for the power users.

Beside that, the huge and growing warez scene cause noticeable slow down in application and games developing and I’m not saying that just like that; I’m in daily contact with almost all reliable developers and symbian developing going under serious crises. Many good applications were stopped from continued improving and supporting because everyone is downloading illegal copies and hard developing work becomes worthless.

So in conclusion at least buy the apps or games that you really, really like it and if you can afford it of course. I’m doing the same by supporting developers and offering my help on improving and testing application! This is just advice for all of you if you want to see cool software in future.

However, in short, because all of mentioned things from my stand point such a competition is more than welcome and I’m looking forward to see some new applications taking advantage of some of the new, innovative and unique technologies packed into N95. The 3rd edition application scene growing faster and faster same as the number of the devices and users and such a competition could only help.