The first mobile phone based on Google’s Android Operating System will launch later this year. To foster development of apps, Google kicked of the Android Developer Challenge end of last year to award a total $5 million for the best android apps developed till summer of this year.
A couple of weeks ago Google asked me to become one of the seven judges to select the winners of the ten $275,000 awards and the ten $100,000 awards out of the 50 finalists (a total of 1,788 Android applications had originally been submitted). It was an honor for me to be part of the jury.
Google announced the winners last Friday:
List of the award winners and finalist
The 7 judges
Now I look forward to use the first Android phone in practice – will it be the best phone in the world (see my current favorite)?