Want a free Omnia II to develop for Windows Mobile 6.5? Register your interest TODAY!

For today (WED 28 OCT 2009) only we are opening this exclusive offer to the entire Windows Mobile developer community.

Samsung Application Store wants your app, and to prove it we’ll give you our latest Windows Mobile device for FREE…

We are offering you a device to keep, just for porting your existing Windows Mobile app to the Omnia II and making it available on Samsung Application Store. Why? Because we want to help Samsung Mobile Innovator Hub members like you grow their business.

You will need to attend our UK Developer Day where the devices will be available for you to collect on the evening.

Samsung Application Store UK Developer Day
Monday 02 November 2009, 6pm to 10pm
Bonetti Suite, Chelsea FC, Fulham Road, Chelsea. SW6 1HS

There will be a champagne reception, followed by a series of short informal presentations:

1. Introduction to Samsung Application Store
2. Technical support with Samsung Mobile Inno vator
3. Using the Samsung Omnia II SDK
4. Taking your app to market

Plus, plenty of time to network over drinks with other Windows Mobile developers and find out what they are working on. Then pick up your de

vice and start porting.

This is a free event and offered on the understanding that you wish to accept a free Omnia II device. To accept this device you must agree to port your Windows Mobile app by Thursday 10 December 2009 and distribute it on Samsung Application Store.

There are a limited number of seats available for this event, so unfortunately we won’t be able to accept all developers. Instead we will be choosing developers based on their responses to our online registration form. Complete this form at the link below.

http://bit.ly/SamsungDevDayNov09

Selected developers will receive an invitation by Thursday 29 October 2009.

If you have any questions regarding this offer please contact us on the email address yourpartner@samsung.com.

The Omnia II is a fantastic device, as you’ll hopefully discover first-hand. It is with great pleasure that we can offer you this chance to develop on it.

Farewell SIQ; hello SEE…

It has been a busy week here at Samsung Mobile Innovator. Today we announced the winners of our Samsung IQ win BIG with Widgets competition. We were very pleased with the quality of all the entries in this year’s competition, but the three place-winners below really impressed us….

First Place - Oh my Tweet
Oh my Tweet! We love this cool widget that brings the functionality of Twitter to the home screen of the Touch Wiz UI with a dynamic, easy to read, interface that can be minimized to take up less space on the home-screen. It has all the Twitter functions you need and it's a Samsung Mobile Widget that we think our customers are going to love.

Second Place - Twitter Tiny
Looks like Twitter definitely captured the imagination of our entrants, because our second place Samsung Mobile Widget is also a Twitter client. With innovative collapsible tabs, Twitter Tiny uses minimal space on the Samsung Touch Wiz UI.

Third Place - LoveOMeter
Think love's irrational? Our third place winner LoveOMeter tries to bring some logic (and fun!) to the situation. Simply enter your name, and the name of your partner, and check out how well you and your partner match. Want to compare yourselves to other users? Click on the statistics icon to get an overview of what the world is matching on!

For full details see http://bit.ly/CsoBx.

Also this week we have been putting the final touches on our preparation for SEE 2009. This year we will have a dedicated area in the Samsung Mobile stand showing off some of the coolest apps that have been developed by our Core partners for the i8910 HD. We hope to meet as many of you as possible. Our Global Relations Manager, Anwar Ahmed will be at SEE 2009 on both days. Get in touch with him on Twitter (@AnwarAhmed101). We will also be updating this blog as much as possible over the two days.

You can still register at http://www.see2009.org/

Location, location, location...

MoMo London
Last night our resident Technical Author, Ben Morris, attended MoMo London. Ben has a healthy(?) scepticism for anything he considers “trendy” or “marketing” so his thoughts on this month’s MoMo theme Location (a topic that continues to capture the imagination of both trend-setters and marketers alike) were always destined to be interesting.

Find them below…

Location has been the "new new thing" since, ooh, about Y2K, and was the theme at last night's MoMo London with some nice app demos and a panel discussion. A couple of key themes emerged:

• The cool new apps are using location as an added dimension to their main function/service and not as the primary service. Pure maps and navigation thus gives way to "where was I when I heard that song...?"

• There's still a place for pure location though, as Vodafone 360 demoed with its "location nudge" - on the new LiMo based 360 phones from Samsung

• The jury is still out on location based advertising. Biggest boo of the evening was for intrusive advertising along the lines of "when you walk past the store/coffee shop it can send you an offer". What we want instead are apps that add location to enable us to make the choices we want to make...

• In other words we want location browsing, and as if to make the point - the Flook demo seemed to offer us exactly that. Can't wait!

• The elephant in the room was privacy. It was the question I was going to ask, but Dan Appelquist beat me to it. The dystopian vision is of the mobile phone as a self-inflicted surveillance tool. The big question is - do we care/who cares? The optimistic view - perhaps "hide in plain sight" will save us.

• Best use case of the evening - "Let's me find myself when I'm in a bar!"

Loads of people, standing room only, tolerable wine, bags of chat and discussion afterwards until chucking out time.

Considering Ben is also a wine producer, “tolerable” is quite high praise.

Map out your future and get into the fast lane.
That’s the message from our partners NAVTEQ who are once again running their LBS Challenge, this year there is a special category for Touch UI apps in their annual LBS developer competition. The competition is open for location-aware applications based on any platform, including Symbian and Windows Mobile. This presents the perfect opportunity for any Samsung Mobile Innovator members currently developing LBS apps for Samsung's Windows Mobile Samsung Omnia range or the Symbian powered i8910 HD to participate.

For further details see www.LBSChallenge.com