Price & Sponsors
The complete prize package includes the following:
- A UIQ 3 phone of your choice
- Handango — featured product placement, worth $1000
- An invitation to a UIQ Fast Track 2008 event
- Motricity — marketing package, worth €1000
- An Accredited Symbian Developer exam fee
- Handmark — featured product placement, worth $1000
- A Wirelexsoft's VistaMax IDE 2.0 full license
- Smartsym — featured product placement, worth €1000
A UIQ 3 phone of your choice
Each winner will be able to choose any UIQ 3 phone available on the market at the competition’s result announcement date.
The phone will be sent to them them by UIQ Technology, free of charge.
UIQ Fast Track 2008 Invitation
All winners will receive an invitation to participate in any of the UIQ Development Fast Track event in 2008 at no charge.
Handango featured product placement
Winners will also receive a marketing package from Handango, consisting of:
- Two featured product placements for the device of your choice
- A Software Spotlight placement on the Symbian device of your choice
All these activities add up to more than a 1000€ value in marketing focused on generating better product exposure and increased sales for an application on www.handango.com
Conditions:
- Only commercial applications will be eligible to use the marketing package
- ISV must offer the winning UIQ application for sale on Handango
- Marketing package can only be used to promote the contest-winning application
- Package must be used within 12 months of award date
Motricity Marketing Package
Motricity will offer several marketing packages over 3 months to the winning applications:
- 1st week: Review of the application and news in our Newsletter which goes to around 68.000 users
- 1st month: Hotspot banner on Mobile2day.de, Symbiangear.de and Symbiangear.com – worth 350€
- 2nd month: Special feature marketing – worth 400€
- 3rd month: Sponsored Searchlink – worth 300€
All these activities add up to more than a 1000€ value in marketing focused on generating better product exposure and increased sales for an application.
Conditions:
- The winning software will have to be ready-to-market and hosted on the Motricity Germany platform
- Promotion should be run before the next Open UIQ in November 2007
Handmark featured product placement
Handmark will offer the winners a marketing package adding up to more than a $1000 value in marketing focused on generating better product exposure and increased sales for an application.
Smartsym promotion package
Each winner of the UIQ Open Application competition will receive the following marketing package with a 1000€ value:
- 1 Review on start page for two weeks
- 1 Banner ad on start and product page
- 1 Newsletter ad
- The appliaction will be added to our Favorite list
All these activities add up to more than a 1000€ value in marketing focused on generating better product exposure and increased sales for an application on http://smartsym.com/
Conditions:
- To receive this Promotion Package the application has to be commercial and available for sale on Smartsam. It is valid for 12 months.
Accredited Symbian Developer exam fee
UIQ Technology will offer an ASD examination to each winning company.
The Accredited Symbian Developer scheme, operated by Majinate, is designed to set and objectively measure the standard of engineering competency required for developers and engineers to differentiate themselves from novice Symbian OS developers.
VistaMax IDE 2.0 for UIQ 3.0
Wirelexsoft will offer a full licence of VistaMax IDE 2.0 for UIQ 3.0 to each winner.
VistaMax IDE 2.0 is the first IDE with Rapid Application Development (RAD) capabilities available on the market for UIQ 3.0. It’s extensive UI Elements palette covers all aspects of UI design in UIQ 3.0, and removes the complexity of UI design on this very comprehensive platform.
Dataviz“As a UIQ Open winner, we gained a tremendous amount of exposure.”







