Nokia and AT&T announce $10 million App Developer Contest. N900 App Developers, this is a good opportunity for you!
 

Nokia and AT&T have just announced a $10 million App Developer Contest. I know there are alot of N900 app developers. This is the time to give your app exposure because the winner also wins USD 6 million in marketing promotion by Nokia and AT&T in the North American market.
More information can be found here. (Click here for more info)

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Re: Nokia and AT&T announce $10 million App Developer Contest. N900 App Developers, this is a good oppurtunity for you!
 

Beeeecause the N900 was MADE to work so well with AT&T? Let's hope THIS doesn't become as misguided as Nokia's designing around T-Mobile did, eh?

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I totally agree with you danramos. I think they have ignored the American market for quite a bit of time and I think they are trying hard now to gain a reasonable amount of the American market. (They own the rest of the world though :)

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This is most likely for Symbian^3 apps, not for the currently abandoned Maemo. Well, maybe a Meego app might win something, although I doubt it.

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Won't the S^3 apps run on maemo and meego?

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With the N900, I can go around the world and get 3(.5)G data service in nearly every country. Perhaps if the US wasn't stuck using CDMA and weird frequencies (AT&T) we wouldn't have such spotty coverage.

And maybe if we could actually keep the carriers in check, things might not suck so badly in terms of handset options here.

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maybe it is for qt apps?

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Now all we need is for an upgrade for our N900's so that we can use AT&T's 3G/3.5G service like my trusty E71. My N900 is stuck on 2.5 on AT&T. Is it hardware based or software based ? Ugh, Nokia does it again !

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If it runs on the N8, it qualifies. So you can write an app in Qt if you want. It just needs to be published to the N8 apps store. Of course you'd know this if you read the linked page...


It's a hardware issue... And it's a bit late to complain now. Nokia, for whatever reason, already made the decision not to make another version that works on the major North American providers. They would have announced something 6-8 months ago if they thought it would be profitable.

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It's hardware based :)

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Didn't I complain aaaaages ago about how they should have made it a modular radio that you didn't have to be forced to buy WITH the unit---something you could buy as an accessory module to make it work with any carrier you wanted?

Tsk.

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If the device were several times larger, maybe. But as tight a fit as devices this size are (hell, even N810 sized devices) making that work would be both expensive and fragile.

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Doesn't matter anymore, does it? These tablets are proving that. Function AND form sometimes DO go together.. giving it more size to give it flexibility as WELL as screensize might have served Nokia better. Too bad they missed that boat JUST as they were in view of it.

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Not to mention the nightmare it would be to get both the device and each module certified with the various agencies that regulate frequencies in all the countries they sell in. It makes sense from an engineering view point to make it as modular as possible so it can be switched out by a tech in case of failure. But to make it a user-accessible/serviceable module would add so much red tape that it wouldn't be worth it in the end for any company to do.

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"modular" is pretty hard to do, that implies that anyone should be able to swap it out. probably the retention device would add some wasted space to the internals of the phone. And you'd still need to unscrew the back and it's easy for a noob to leave a screw rattling around and short the thing out, or get dust onto the lcd, or lots of other bad things. i'd be happy if they just used similar parts in all their phones, so that we could cut the thing out and solder in a replacement if we really wanted. and if we needed a firmware update or something, nokia could provide that since they insist on keeping the low level stuff closed-source.

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same boat here. i'm gonna see if i get do a dual sim (1 for voice on att and the other just 3g for tmobile) so if i want to make calls, i pick the att sim. man all these headaches, why nokia why

Re: Nokia and AT&T announce $10 million App Developer Contest. N900 App Developers, this is a good opportunity for you!
 

Guys, how about getting back on topic? Want to rant about Nokia and AT&T's tempestuous relationship? Start a new thread.

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i had to switch providers, to a new company that drops lots of calls, has bad coverage, higher rates... *cough* WIND *cough*

but at the same time, i never expected Nokia to release this phone at all. and i never expected a new provider to come along and have the right frequencies for 3G.

my point is, your complaints are valid, but Nokia never really wanted to put the work in to sell this phone to our countries properly. that doesn't make me happy about their decisions, but i don't see how i have any right to complain since i am lucky it works and exists at all.

this contest is ONLY for North Americans. I'm surprised Canada is included since it's connected to AT&T and we don't have that. so, i would save your complaining until every app is written in symbian. then we can at least stay on topic while complaining ;)

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I have my N900 and I like it very much. I also have my N97. I hope they make more apps for the N900 as there are so many Symbian Apps and they are so easy to install. One big plus would be if you could use Mobipocket. Ebook reader only does some books and its hard to use. I use my N900 just fine on AT&T. Like I said, it just seems like you are stuck with so few apps and now it looks like Maemo is going away and Meego is coming in but from what I have read it will not be porterd or usable on the N900.
Thanks,
Bobby

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Who is Bobby and why are you thanking him? Or is that your signature? Why are you signing a comment as if it were a letter? :)