Theres just less than a month to go to enter the Vodafone App Star competition. The competition challenges the European developer community to design and build the best mobile app, and win a share of the 1 million (900,000) prize fund.
The Vodafone App Star competition is open to any developer across the world and closes on 31 March 2010.  Developers can choose to submit their app into one of eight markets – UK, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal or Spain. The the best entry in each market will receive 25,000. The second and third best entries will receive 15,000 and 10,000 respectively.
The winning entries from each market will then progress to a second round of the competition, where the top eight apps will be put to a public vote. The app with the highest number of public votes will win an additional 75,000, with the second place app receiving 25,000.
In the  Vodafone 360 Developer Conference App Star Auditions, held at Mobile World Congress last month,  Smartrunner, a sports-tracking and geo-tracking app that helps you stay in shape using your mobile, was voted the best app at the show by an audience of international developers, winning a 1,000 cash prize.
Mobnotes, which provides a simple way of telling friends where you are and what you are doing, came in a close second. followed by InfoBus Sevilla, a useful Spanish app for checking waiting times at bus stops. Further highly commended apps from the show included Mirotele, a Spanish widget, which recommends the best TV programmes any day and time according to your likes and preferences, and Weatherbug, a British app which provides current UK weather information.  
Vodafone internal research has found that Lifestyle & Entertainment is the most popular application category in the Vodafone 360 Apps Shop across all markets, while the most under-represented categories are Shopping, Social Networks, Food & Drink and Weather. 
You can enter the Vodafone App Star competition here.