Over the Air 24 Hours of Mobile Development

Competition – the 24 hours of mobile development part

One of the key features of Over the Air is the in-event competition, which gives you a chance to show off the clever and fun ideas you've been coding and hacking away at over the course of the event. We've had some really great entries over the years, and look forward to seeing many clever innovations again this year.

In order to enter the competition, you simply need to fill out an online form which will be opened up for submissions on Friday the 10th, and closed shortly before the demonstration on Saturday the 11th. (Check back here for the url, but we'll circulate it at the event as well)

The Categories are...drumroll....

1. Best in Show (judges selection)
2. Audience Favourite (audience vote)
3. The UnLtd Better Net Challenge
4. The Telefonica #Blue Challenge
5. The PayPal Challenge
6. The Blackberry Challenge
7. The Ericsson Labs Challenge
8. The Orange Mobilise Challenge
9. Best User Experience
10. Best use of Open APIs and Open Data

In the past we have also had additional categories put up on the fly, which we will very likely do again:

• Best Use of Voice, RFID or Bluetooth
• Best Android App
• Best iPhone App
• Best use of Mobile Web
• Best Visual Design
• Best use of Widgets
• Best Hardware Hack

There are Terms & Conditions for entering the competition, which you can read here (and which you implicitly agree to when you submit an entry).

As well as kudos, glory and general street cred - we also have some lovely prizes for our competition winners (still coming in so not matched against categories yet), courtesy of our very generous Sponsors and Supporters:

• £2,500 from UnLtd for the winner of the Better Net Challenge (specific terms apply)
• $1,000 worth of services from DeviceAnywhere and from Mob4Hire
• $500 of In-Network Ad Spend from InMobi
• An iPad from Alcatel-Lucent
• ...much more to come!

Where are they now?

We're planning on doing some blogging about our past entries and where those ideas went... if you've got a video or a blog post about what you did, if you've launched the idea you worked on in '09 or '08 - please get in touch! We'd love to brag about you....

The competition categories, winners and prizes for 2009 were: