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12 Regional Finalists Announced In The BlackBerry Partners Fund Developer Challenge

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The BlackBerry Partners Fund has announced 12 regional finalists in the third annual BlackBerry Developer Challenge.  This years Challenge focuses on “Super Apps“, BlackBerry applications that deliver the most engaging experiences possible for BlackBerry user.

This year’s finalists:

  • North American Finalists:
    • Dictionary and Thesaurus – Dictionary.com
    • Poynt
    • Vayyoo
  • Latin America Finalists:
    • Navita Sports
    • Vlingo Plus – Voice App
    • Waze (LATAM)
  • Europe / Middle East / Africa Finalists
    • CamCard(Business Card Reader)
    • n-tv mobil
    • UbiNav EU
  • Asia Pacific Finalists
    • Forum for BlackBerry
    • Love Indonesia
    • Ramadhan Pocket Guide

Finalists are about to enter the 4th round of judging, further trimming our way down to the best Super App.

You can get more information about the BlackBerry Developers Challenge out here, and find out more about the characteristics of a Super App here…

APP NAME VENDOR CATEGORY
NORTH AMERICA
Poynt Multiplied Media Corporation Maps & Navigation
Vayyoo Vayyoo Inc. Photo & Video
Dictionary and Thesaurus – Dictionary com Dictionary.com, LLC Reference & eBooks
LATIN AMERICA
Waze (LATAM) Location World Maps & Navigation
Navita Sports Navita Tecnologia Sports & Recreation
Vlingo Plus – Voice App Vlingo Corporation Utilities
EUROPE/MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
CamCard(Business Card Reader) IntSig Information Co.,Ltd Business
UbiNav EU Ubiest S.p.A. Maps & Navigation
n-tv mobil LINEAS Informationstechnik GmbH News
ASIA PACIFIC
Ramadhan Pocket Guide VEELABS INDONESIA, PT Utilities
Forum for BlackBerry® Remko Weingarten IM & Social Networking
Love Indonesia Love Indonesia Shopping

Video: BlackBerry Super Apps Sound Cool… I’d Sure Like To See A Few Developed

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At WES2010 last week, RIM put out a video of developers from various companies talking about “Super Apps”.  From the sounds of it, Super Apps are pretty cool BlackBerry applications.  What would be even cooler is if a few BlackBerry Super Apps were actually developed.

RIM CEO, Mike Lazaridis says that Facebook and Myspace for BlackBerry are “Super Apps”.  I’ve seen them both of them, and, quite honestly, there is nothing super about either of them less maybe the number of times that they’ve been downloaded.

BlackBerry Partner’s Fund Launches 3rd Annual BlackBerry “Super Apps” Developer Challenge

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The BlackBerry Partner’s Fund has launched the third annual BlackBerry Developer Challenge, this year with a focus on finding the best BlackBerry “Super App“.

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Is This What A BlackBerry Super App Is Supposed To Look Like?

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Some very interesting images emerged from yesterday’s BlackBerry Super App Webcast that we told you about a few days ago.  I am not quite sure what this application is, or, even if it is something that RIM is working on, but, it appears to be a some type of today page on steroids.

From one screen shot, we certainly can’t determine if this is a good BlackBerry application or not, however, it looks awfully nice.  I certainly hope that we, not only start to see really nice looking BlackBerry applications come out of RIM, but, the tools necessary for third party developers to create such applications without having to spend more time designing the GUI than it takes to code the functionality, come out as well.

Holding a webinar to show developers the possibilities of BlackBerry Super Apps is great.  RIM just needs to make sure that the tools necessary to create BlackBerry Super Apps are made available to them.

Mike Lazaridis Introduces BlackBerry Super Apps

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During his keynote at Mobile World Congress 2010, Research in Motion founder and co-CEO, Mike Lazaridis, introduced the concept of BlackBerry Super Apps.

A Super App for BlackBerry smartphones is an app that delivers a compelling user experience by leveraging the unique capabilities of the BlackBerry platform. Super Apps are the kind of apps that people love and use every day because they offer such a seamless, integrated, contextualized and efficient experience.

That sounds kinda cool, until RIM said that examples of Super Apps are MySpace and Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones, which, quite honestly, completely confuses the hell out of me.

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