Over the Air 36 Hours of Mobile Development

5Apr/081

It’s All Over

Queen's TowerOver the Air has come to a close. We had a fantastic two days. We had 21 competition entries. The winners were:

  • Overall Best Prototype - Mr. Tomm (Future Platforms)
  • Best Mobile Widget - Auto Widget Configurator (Owen)
  • Best Hardware hack - Phone Fight (lastminute.com labs)
  • Best Use of Multimedia - 21st Century Fridge Door (Orange Pirate)
  • Best Use of Wireless, Bluetooth or RFID - Bluetooth FOAF (Owend)
  • Most elegant solution - Twitter Client for Windows (Dale Lane)
  • Most over engineered - Clever Social Tool (Alex squared)
  • Most practical / ready for market - SNOB
  • Best mobile web application - Browser SyncBest design / user experience prototype - Phone Fight (lastminute.com labs)
  • Best Location Aware Award - Capture the Flag (Location based games)
  • And the winners in our "unofficial categories" were:
    • Fun Award - Phone Fight (lastminute.com labs)
    • Most likely the succeed with the CIA - (Social Tracker)

More info on the winners, pictures, and other follow-ups will be posted soon, after we all have a good night's sleep. Thanks to everybody who participated in Over the Air and made it such a success!

  • http://lastminutelabs.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/phone-fight/ Phone Fight « travel innovation

    [...] – and the built-in accelerometers detect your slashes and blocks.   The judges liked it – we got prizes for Best Hardware hack, Best design / user experience prototype and (best of all) the Fun Award.  [...]

  • http://www.betavine.net Margaret

    The Audience Award went to Capture the Flag!

  • http://www.m-trends.org/2008/04/mobile-20-slides-over-the-air.html Mobile 2.0 slides @ Over The Air at mTrends – mobile media lifestyle trends – m-trends.org

    [...] were 21 competition entries for the mobile application competition. The winners [...]

  • http://www.geekant.co.uk/2008/04/09/over-the-air-phone-phight-n95-software/ Over The Air: Phone Phight n95 Software | Geek Ant

    [...] can read all about the event over at http://www.overtheair.org along with a summary of the event Some very good prototype applications developed and some ideas that sound like they may be very [...]

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