27 February 2008

WidSets Competition Winners Announced!

WidSets is a simple service that brings you information normally accessed via the Internet, directly into your mobile phone. Using mini-applications called widgets, it sends you updates made to your favorite websites. The system uses RSS feeds to push information from these websites directly into your mobile phone the minute they’re updated.

The best thing about WidSets is its simplicity. You simply install WidSets on your phone, select the widgets that interest you and start using it.

As soon as one of your chosen websites is updated (e.g. a news service, blog or weather forecast site), the widget for that website sends you an alert. Wherever you are, you are always kept up-to-date.

S60 will be the first mobile software platform that enables the creation of widgets using familiar standards-based Web technologies. Nokia working hard on populating this and they’ve just announced the winners of the second annual WidSets coding competition have been named. All the winners are now owners of Nokia N810 internet tablet and they are contacted personally

So here are the best of the bests, the three winners. Games really rock this time, and generally speaking why not - fast and easy to grab just when in the mood, together with everyday use of mobile web.

The winners are:

The first prize - BOOM Game

What else could I say than Boom is the most impressive implementation seen so far.

Will Bamford from MobileRadicals/UK did it again since he was the first awarded developer by us last year with the Bombus game being a great success.

Boom! excellently continues demonstrating the capabilities and performance of the WidSets platform and Helium.

Thanks Will! Btw, see also the demo clip

The second prize - WJewls game

This game totally hooked me! I mean, aspects of the killer mobile game being very easy to start and learn but having complexity and challenge as you fight for the new records.. simply the most addictive thing right now and the implementation is excellent.

Shared highscores add the icing on the cake. Thanks a lot from your great effort Ari and Rauli, as an additional recognition you will share an honour of being selected as the second Awarded Developer by WidSets, warm congratulations!

The third prize - Number game

Number is designed by the Russian student team from Saint-Petersburg state university of aerospace instrumentation (http://suai.ru/) positively surprised with the intellectual challenge it offers hence being perfectly suitable for mobile use.

Again, very simple to learn but difficult to beat the records. Good work, we are happy to have you guys on board! Pick the winner widgets from the library and get hooked!