The OMTP (Open Mobile Terminal Platform) has revealed the winners of its BONDI widget competition. Seven winners in total were selected by a panel of mobile industry judges, with the $5,000 (3,200) top prize being awarded to a bike- sharing application, submitted by Italian developer Andrea Vitaletti, which informs the user of the nearest bike-sharing location.
We were very pleased by the creativity of the developers who entered our competition and were delighted to have submissions from all over the world, says OMTP Managing Director, Tim Raby. The winning BONDI widgets were selected based upon their usability and functionality. Due to its truly open environment we look forward to seeing many more widgets being developed as BONDI continues to progress throughout 2010.
The seven winning widgets are:
Bike Sharing Andrea Vitaletti , Italy. How far is the closest bike-sharing station from my current position? How many bikes are there? A widget exploiting BONDI API, Google Maps and AJAX. It currently works on the bike-sharing services in Rome, but it can be easily extended to support other locations and sharing services
Jogg-O-Mat 0 Christian Fuhrhop, Germany. Jogg-O-Mat can be used when jogging. It determines when a lap has been completed and shows (for subsequent laps) whether the jogger is faster or slower than the best, the last and an average lap.
Geosurfer – Luka Schmidt, Germany. How far is it to the next surfing beach? How do I get there?
Golf Buddy – Mark Colley, UK. This Widget uses a BONDI-enabled handset to measure the distance of a golf shot.
Combo Widget – Ravindra Dudda, India. A widget that uses many BONDI APIs such as messaging, calendar, contacts etc. to provide a basic phone user interface
Zhiing – Michael Ayles, USA. Zhiing Chat is a send-to-mobile/send-to-email widget. It enables the user to send their location to a phone or email address and have an IM-like conversation with existing Zhiing users.
Quiz – Richard Wilson, UK – Help Sir Quizalot rescue the fair maiden by answering the trivia questions correctly.
The winning widgets will be demoed by the OMTP at Mobile World Congress in hospitality area 4.8HS51.