davidjstone | 16 February, 2012 15:22
The Nokia Lumia rollout is giving developers and smartphone fans everywhere what our marketing folk call ‘the amazing everyday’.
But it’s not EVERY day you get over 800 developers converging for a 24 hour Nokia Lumia code-fest in the Record Museum of Indonesia. The largest developer collaboration ever staged in Indonesia (according to the Record Museum), the day resulted in 173 locally relevant apps for Nokia Lumia being created and submitted for publishing.
The developers of eight of the apps were awarded new Nokia Lumia 800 smartphones by the judging panel.
The event included the launch of some landmark local applications such as Kompas TV, an on-demand mobile streaming app delivered by Indonesia’s biggest media network.
The Nokia Lumia 710 and Nokia Lumia 800 are now available for pre-order in Indonesia, and both phones will ship pre-loaded with locally sourced and focussed apps such as Movreak, PlaneTix and Daily Social. The creators of these apps were at the event, and shared stories about their success building applications for Nokia Lumia.
On top of this, Nokia Developer Champions including Firstman Marpaung, Erick Kurniawan, and Andri Yadi took to the stage to show detail on the code behind their own Windows Phone apps.
The event was an amazing start to the Nokia Lumia journey in Indonesia, and the feedback at the show and in social media showed that it captured the imagination of the local developer community.
Congratulations and thanks to everyone who participated in this record breaking event.
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