The Open C Challenge: And the Winners Are....

Congratulations to Sittiphol Phanvilai, Pu Zhihua, TongRen, and Steve DeLaney. Who, you ask? And for what?

Well, the "who" part is that these guys are the winners of the Open C Challenge, which takes us to the "what" part. The Open C Challenge was a contest sponsored by Forum Nokia, along with Orange the Symbian Developer Network, which invited developers to build or port mobile or desktop environments to/for Nokia's S60 platform on Symbian OS, or Native Symbian C++. (For more information on Open C, see Open C: Paving the Way for Porting.)

The $10,000 Grand Prize Winner is Sittiphol Phanvilai, from Bangkok, Thailand, for MobiTubia, a Flash Lite video player and YouTube portal application with real-time decoding for the S60 platform. (For information on Flash Lite, see Flash Lite: Graphics for Mobile Devices.)

MobiTubia lets mobile users access FLV clips using several different methods. Additionally, the application allows users to browse and search for specific content on YouTube. Sittiphol ported 25,000 lines of code to the Open C environment to make the application compatible with S60 on Symbian OS.

The $5000 First Runner-Up prize when to Pu Zhihua of Shanghai, China for his application LiveTraffic traffic assistance software that provides real-time traffic information. Live Traffic uses FCD (Floating Car Data) technology to acquire road traffic information anywhere anytime, and publish mapped traffic information to Nokia phone users via GPRS or EDGE connections. The developers ported 2,500 lines of code via Open C.

The $3000 Second Runner-Up TongRen, also of Shanghai, China, for his MobiClass application which is a virtual multimedia courseware application of about 16,000 lines of code ported using Nokia’s Open C Plug-in.

Finally, the $2500 Third Runner-Up prize went to Steve DeLaney of Carlsbad, CA for his ViewRight, a streaming mobile video application. Verimatrix, a CA/DRM supplier, contracted with Steve's company to develop the ViewRight application, which lets users watch television from their mobile devices. The application includes mobile video wireless download UI, proxy streaming, client, and crypto middleware for Symbian 3G DVB-H H.264 platforms. Steve ported 5000 lines of existing Posix code and implemented new Posix for integrating mobile platform streaming support.

So congratulations to each and everyone. As you can see from the videos, their applications are very cool.

Posted by Jon Erickson at 05:29 PM  Permalink