Betavine widget competition

March 23, 2009 · by Espen André Øverdahl

Betavine, a Vodafone Group R&D lab, is offering developers a chance to win £20,000^* in a mobile widget competition.

Developers are invited to create widgets for the Opera for Mobile 9.5 platform, which is included on Nokia 6210, Nokia N78, Nokia N95 8gb and Nokia N96 devices.

Recources to get started

Have a look and use the following recources:

Also check out Betavine's own "Get Started" page and the extensive Mobile Widgets User Experience Guidelines PDF document by Vodafone.

If this competition sounds like something for you, sign up at Betavine!

^*Seriously, that's a lot of money.

Readers' comments 22

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Aleksander AasMonday, March 23, 2009 9:17:36 AM
Wow.. that's alot of cash :s
Charles SchlossMonday, March 23, 2009 12:57:53 PM
Matt CoxMonday, March 23, 2009 5:47:14 PM
Oh my, I'm going to pass this round like it were an STD.
k4fk4Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:01:38 AM
nguyenhoang83Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:01:34 PM
This's cool
Kojar Akbarali GulamrasulTuesday, March 24, 2009 7:02:01 PM
Nice I like it
Captain FalconWednesday, March 25, 2009 1:23:31 AM
How much US$ is £20,000?
Pluto VorletWednesday, March 25, 2009 9:41:47 AM
^ UK£ 20 000 = 29 364 US$
AntoWednesday, March 25, 2009 6:05:09 PM
Good
AriesptnThursday, March 26, 2009 4:51:03 PM
WOW
Mike evansSaturday, March 28, 2009 7:37:07 AM
Yikes i will invest it for d poor 2 benefit from it
Animesh chaturbediSaturday, March 28, 2009 11:53:30 AM
I will give to my lover
Arshad Aly SakhiSaturday, March 28, 2009 12:51:37 PM
Good
Captain FalconTuesday, March 31, 2009 1:44:19 AM
now if only i had a mobile browser and a good knowledge of CSS (or HTML, but who uses that?)
Charles SchlossTuesday, March 31, 2009 1:51:31 AM
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/1-introduction-to-the-web-standards-cur/

http://www.w3schools.com/
petrosovWednesday, April 1, 2009 9:25:59 PM
i try to...where can i get his disc?
E DSaturday, April 4, 2009 5:23:08 AM
Makes it interesting
meymeyASaturday, April 4, 2009 11:09:39 PM
Thats a real good!!
IykeWednesday, April 15, 2009 5:01:21 AM
aah! thats a cool cash...with this money i will rock my guys down..i love it
Klemen BanMonday, April 20, 2009 7:25:46 PM
It says here, that "Developers are invited to create widgets for the Opera for Mobile 9.5 platform, which is included on Nokia 6210, Nokia N78, Nokia N95 8gb and Nokia N96 devices."
I went to http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/ and there is no Opera Mobile 9.5 for S60 devices, only stable version 8.65. Is there a S60 version of Opera Mobile 9.5 available? I would really like to give it a try on my Nokia N95 8GB.
HaavardTuesday, April 21, 2009 8:53:36 AM
There is a widget engine for S60.
Captain FalconSunday, April 26, 2009 4:09:41 PM
nokias suck