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This page includes important information about the Series 60 Challenge.

  • Eligibility requirements for contestants
  • Contest timeline
  • Evaluation criteria
  • Results and prizes
Eligibility requirements for contestants

  • Contestant must be a company (no private persons can register)
  • One submission per category per contestant is eligible
  • Format and sizes of applications as defined with Series 60 Platform
  • Application submissions must be Java MIDP 2.0 or Symbian applications for the Series 60
  • Submissions can be in concept phase at start but must be ready for launch by end of the competition
  • Application submissions must run on GSM technology
  • Language support, minimum English
  • Contestant must own or control all necessary rights (including but not limited to intellectual property rights) in the submission, and all material in the submission, to allow anyone to use the submission and the material in the manner set out in the contestant’s overview
  • The submission and the material in the submission cannot be an invasion of privacy, or breach confidence, or be defamatory, racist or libelous
  • Adult content is not accepted
  • The submission and the material in the submission cannot infringe trade mark law and cannot misrepresent an association or connection to some person, brand or thing that it does not actually have
  • Submissions must be participant’s own work
  • Employees of organizing parties cannot participate in the competition

Contest Timeline

Registration was closed December 1, 2004
Deadline to send submission details January 3, 2005
Finalists announced January 17, 2005
Winners announced February 12, 2005
Evaluation criteria

A Jury, consisting of representatives from Nokia, Sendo, Siemens and Symbian will evaluate the eligible entries based on their quality, benefits and creativity. Finalists and winners will be selected by discussion and, if needed, voting.

The Jury’s decision is final. Because of the number of submissions, it will not be possible to reply to each contestant with individual evaluations, and no correspondence will be entered into.

In case of a tie, the Chairman of the Jury will have a casting vote to break the tie.

Results and prizes

The finalists will be invited to the Series 60 Awards Gala to be held in a city at the French Riviera on February 12, 2005. The winners will be announced and awarded at the Gala. Each winner will receive the following prizes:
  • Series 60 Challenge Winner Trophy
  • Series 60 devices from sponsoring terminal manufacturers
  • Set of most recent Symbian Press books
  • Two Symbian Signed test runs provided by NSTL, Inc.
  • Developing Series 60 Applications: A Guide for C++ Programmers (Part of the Nokia Mobile Developers book series By Leigh Edwards, Richard Barker, and the Staff of EMCC Software Ltd)
  • Web site visibility (e.g. series60.com, www.forum.nokia.com)

 

 
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