The
CES 2013 expo is going down in Las Vegas, but this week was also active
for another audience in Sin City. The AT&T Developers Summit, which
Nokia was a Platinum Sponsor of, just wrapped, bringing mobile
developers together in the sunny Nevada desert.
Nokia sponsored the Hackathon, where developers produced apps in a
marathon session for the chance to win cool prizes and fanfare at the
event.
Rewarding the Developers
Nokia gave away 10 backpacks to the top 10 Windows Phone apps that included a Microsoft Surface, a Nokia Lumia 920, a Microsoft Premium Developer Token and other goodies, making the backpacks very popular prizes.
The AT&T Developer Summit Hackathon had more than 400 attendees who
produced apps in a whirlwind fashion. Of the mobile apps produced, over
half of them were for Windows Phone. Also, two of the top three apps
that were judged at the Keynote were Windows Phone applications.
Congrats to the Grand Prize winner, Ruggero Scorconi, who wrote an app
called Good Times and won $30,000 for best application overall. This
innovative app reads your neural activity. If the app senses you are
angry, it will block you from taking a call until you’re in a calmer
mood.
Scorconi loves writing apps for Windows Phone and said, “if it wasn’t
for the ease of use of the Windows Phone Platform, Nokia and their
Developer Ambassadors, it would have taken me up to six months to build a
prototype. In stead, I had a working proto in less than 48 hours.”
Time to Party
Nokia also put on an amazing Developer Party with 8-bit as the theme.
Attendees played video games, had 8-bit caricatures drawn of them and
enjoyed an amazing DJ who put on as much a show to the eye as beats
rained down.
Lastly, as an evening event, Nokia sponsored an exclusive concert by
famous – and local – rock band, The Killers. Safe to say, they put on an
absolutely stunning performance.
Don’t
forget we’re giving away 10 Nokia PowerUps this week – just tweet with
#NokiaPoweredMeUp to be one of our two daily winners!
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