Samsung today announced that it will be hosting its second bada Developer Day in the UK which will take place in London on Thursday 3rd November. The event follows the launch of bada 2.0 in August and aims to encourage more developers and brands to incorporate bada 2.0 into their application strategy.
The event will include a mixture of sessions hosted by Samsung, a look at how apps are changing consumer behaviour and future trends that will change the mobile market, as well as demonstrations of the updated bada platform and latest bada 2.0 devices, including the Wave III.
Attendees will receive an introduction to bada 2.0 and a demonstration of the key differences and enhanced features of the updated platform, such as multi-tasking, Wi-Fi Direct, Near Field Communication (NFC) and voice recognition. They will hear about the future of the bada platform and its USPs in comparison to other operating systems and the commercial opportunity for bada 2.0 and Samsung's Wave III.
The event is also a chance for attendees to hear more about the bada 2.0 Power App Race, a global competition celebrating the launch of bada 2.0, and to expand the bada ecosystem. The first 10 bada 2.0 applications to achieve 100,000 downloads at Samsung Apps will be rewarded with a $3,000,000 prize package, including $1,000,000 in cash. The registration period for the bada 2.0 Power App Race ends on 31st December 2011.
In addition, Samsung is launching a high profile UK competition at the bada 2.0 Developer Day with a cash prize of £100,000 for the most innovative initial local concept idea for an app, and a runner-up prize of £50,000. The winners will be announced at Appsworld in November.
A third competition is also running in the UK and Ireland, the bada Student Developer Challenge, where students at participating universities can join 24-hour 'code-athons' to try out their bada 2.0 coding skills. The winning team will receive £15,000.
The audience at the free event will consist of developers, company representatives, journalists and bloggers. The Samsung bada 2.0 Developer Day will be held on November 3rd at OXO2, South Bank, London.
The UK Developer Day is part of a series, with events having taken place in Spain, Iran, India, China and the Ukraine already this year. Samsung is also giving members of the public the chance to win a pair of tickets to the event and a Wave III handset each by entering competitions hosted on the Samsung Facebook and Twitter pages. All entrants have to do is email an app idea to Samsung@badadevday.co.uk in no more than 100 words by midnight on Tuesday 1st November.
Source:- bada Developers
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