Today, Microsoft Australia has crowned its first Australian Windows Phone 7 “App Champion” to the developers of the “Nine Lettuce” word game for the “Dev vs Dev” competition that has been accepting submissions over the past four months.
A panel of five mobile experts from Microsoft, Telstra and the industry chose the wittily-named winner from a range of Australian-based applications judged on creativity, marketability, potential popularity and originality. They’ve certainly worked hard since the winning app along with the five runner-ups are all of very high caliber.
Runners up include Art Spot, a puzzle game; AU Newswire, an Australian news reader; Cell, an arcade game; MIX11, a conference guide; and Pocket Files, a DropBox client. Microsoft also makes honorable mentions to Hungry Bub; Pocket Money; Metro Match; AU FMRadio; Hallucinogen; and MyBikeMap.
The winner is offered the opportunity to attend the Microsoft MIX11 conference next week in Las Vegas (which I’ll also be attending). The runner-ups all receive a complementary HTC 7 Mozart device.
Credits to the Australian developer community for coming up with some great-looking and practical apps.
It is very good thing. But Microsoft has already announced about WP8. In this condition, what would be the future of WP7?
Microsoft have made no announcements on Windows Phone 8. Microsoft is work on Mango, which they have annouced, and people like Long 🙂 have done some investigating about hints on Windows Phone 8 such as AppX, however Microsoft have made no annoucements on Windows Phone 8. I believe it’s far too early to plan around Windows Phone 8 and I feel there’s plenty of life in Windows Phone 7, including a post-Mango future in the 7.x family.
Someone send me a free WP7 so I can try this out.
wow, this is cool, but how can i get this WP7?