GetJar Awards Winners of Adobe Flash Mobile Developer Contest

LONDON & SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GetJar today awarded the winners of the Adobe® Flash® Mobile Developer Contest with $100,000 worth of premium placement on GetJar, the world’s largest independent app store which has over 450 million downloads to date. The grand prize award winner, Flash Cell Ltd received $30,000 worth of maximum placement for their app, “Microfilm,” which will help them receive an optimal amount of downloads through GetJar.

The contest was launched on February 16, 2009 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Sponsored by Adobe, GetJar, and Thumbplay, the challenge helps fuel the development of compelling mobile applications working with the Adobe Flash Platform. Developers are encouraged to submit mobile applications in one of five categories: Lifestyle, Games, Infotainment, Social Networking and Sports.

Premium placement for the winners on GetJar means that the winning developers will have their applications placed in either the “New & Cool,” “Featured” or “Recommended” areas on GetJar.com and m.getjar.com for a duration equivalent to the value of their cash prize. With only about 100 total slots available per month, this gives each developer guaranteed visibility among the more than 45,000 apps on GetJar that has over 10 million unique app hungry consumers in 200 countries. Their apps will also be visible across all the channels GetJar works with, including stores on Opera Mini, 3UK, Virgin Mobile (France), Vodafone (Ireland) ”

“Premium visibility on GetJar gives the developers of these great new applications a quick and easy way for consumers to find and download their apps,” said Ilja Laurs, CEO of GetJar. “We fully support the developer community and continually look for ways to partner with companies like Adobe to put great opportunities like this in front of the developers themselves. Whether it’s Adobe Flash, Java, BREW or the iPhone, GetJar supports every development platform out there.”

“As a provider of independent services for the mobile development community, GetJar made a great sponsor for the contest,” said Mike Potter, senior product marketing manager, Adobe Platform Business. “We’re also proud to see the types of rich, engaging applications the nominees were able to develop with Flash technology and hope they will do well on services like GetJar.”

Contest Winners

Grand Prize (US$15K) – “Microfilm” from Flash Cell Ltd – Watch the latest film releases, book tickets, rent and buy DVDs - Find out what your friends are watching - Discover like minded neighbors - Browse through films using a tag cloud interface - Use genres and user generated tags to sort through films.

People’s Choice (A copy of Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection) – “Cubic Republic” by IKS Mobile – Cubic Republic is a place of original and highly interactive quests. Intuitive game play makes it easy to grasp and simple to play. Multiplayer gaming on different devices let you engage anytime, anywhere. Prepare for great cross-platform entertainment!

Most Innovative (US$10K) – “Big Game Huntr” by Mobile Radicals – A location-based hunting game populated by user generated content based around communities of players. The premise of the game is to allow users to generate their own communities of hunts and promote social networking.

Lifestyle Category (US$15K) – “Little Spender” by Ribot – The aim is to enable even the most casual of Little Spenders to see where exactly their hard-earned cash goes every month. Along with a bit of fun and simplicity along the way, they'll hopefully save a little money too.

Games Category (US$15K) – “Ficklebox” by Bluesky North – Block matching puzzle with extra ”flash enabled” personality as the Blox come to life. Make chains or groups of matching colored blox to score points.

Infotainment Category (US$15K, also Grand Prize Winner) – “Microfilm” by Flash Cell Ltd – See description above.

Social Networking Category (US$15K) – “Mr. Postman” by Ian Moreira de Andrade – Based on a timeline concept, Mr. Postman won't let you miss a tweet: access the most important features with a single click, keep up with your friends, celebs or news live updates and send yours. No mess. No crowded information.

Sports Category (US$15K)– “Golfbox” by Little Big Ideas – A golfers’ management app. Book tee-times, invite friends to play, view leaderboards, track handicaps, read golf news and much more for local Danish golf courses.

For more information about the contest, please visit: http://www.flashlitedeveloperchallenge.com.

About GetJar Networks

GetJar is the world’s largest independent app store with over 450 million downloads to date. The company provides more than 45,000 mobile applications across all major handsets and platforms to consumers in more than 200 countries. GetJar is backed by marquee investors Accel Partners and is based in the UK, Silicon Valley and Lithuania. For more information: www.getjar.com and follow us on Twitter @getjar.

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