I Won The Nokia N8 Make My App Competition!

Tuesday 10 August 2010 @ 2:01 am

Last Friday, I received an email from Nokia Ovi team informing me that my idea Instant Voice Translation Application is 1 of the final 13 ideas the judges of Make My App competition selected. All these 13 ideas will be developed into real applications and included in the upcoming Nokia flagship smartphone, Nokia N8. In other words, you’ll see Instant Voice Translation running in the phone when it hits the market in Q3 2010. :)

This piece of fantastic news is indeed the best news so far in this year.

Instant Voice Translation (Click to enlarge)

1. The phone user speaks to the phone in foreign language.
2. The phone translates the spoken words into English by utilizing its voice recognition and language translation feature.
3. The phone sends a query to dictionary.com or Google Dictionary for the voice pronunciation of the translated words.
4. The dictionary.com or Google Dictionary server returns the voice output to the phone.
5. The phone will output the translated words in voice to the user.

More than 6,000 ideas were submitted in this Make My App competition, 90 got shortlisted, then the final 13 were selected by the judges. I would like to thank all of you who have voted because my idea won’t get shortlisted without your votes. Thanks a lot for making it a reality!

The prizes for winning the competition is a Nokia N8 loaded with all these proposed applications and a trip to London to attend Nokia World Event 2010 on 13^th-15^th September 2010.

I can’t wait to see all these winning applications running in Nokia N8. Stay tuned for more first hand news about Nokia World Even 2010 and Nokia N8 from me by either following me (@sapiensbryan) in Twitter or subscribing to my blog feeds.

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14 Responses to 'I Won The Nokia N8 Make My App Competition!'

Che-Cheh - August 10th, 2010 at 12:18 am
Congratssssss!!!

Wohooo you must be over the moon with this news.
Can sleep at night? haha
Che-Cheh - August 10th, 2010 at 8:18 am
Congratssssss!!!

Wohooo you must be over the moon with this news.
Can sleep at night? haha
SapiensBryan - August 10th, 2010 at 1:13 am
Can’t sleep well for many nights, too happy. LoL

Thanks!
SapiensBryan - August 10th, 2010 at 9:13 am
Can’t sleep well for many nights, too happy. LoL

Thanks!
adamopinheiro - August 10th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Hey Brian, congrats!

We will soon be meeting in London! :P
adamopinheiro - August 11th, 2010 at 4:17 am
Hey Brian, congrats!

We will soon be meeting in London! :P
SapiensBryan - August 10th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
Hey Adamo, congratulations for winning the competition too!

Yea, let’s meet in London. :)
SapiensBryan - August 11th, 2010 at 7:57 am
Hey Adamo, congratulations for winning the competition too!

Yea, let’s meet in London. :)
Dna - August 19th, 2010 at 11:10 am
Hey Bryan, Congrats on the Competition :), My names David (DNA) I won too :)
Just sayin hello and see u in London too :)
Anonymous - August 19th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Hi David, Thanks!

Congratulations to you as well.
See you there in London!

By the way, where are you from?
Dna - August 19th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Im from london actually! lol, I wish I wasnt as I wont have to fly off anywhere to go to the event, oh well, at least I wont have an excuse for not turning up :)), btw, my moms from Malaysia too
Anonymous - August 19th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
At least you can stay in the hotel for free. LoL…

What a small world, eh? Maybe you might wanna ask your mum if she’s missing anything from Malaysia that I can help bring it over for her. :)
Dna - August 19th, 2010 at 7:24 pm
Thx, shes ok, lol, only here for a holiday and going back soon. Well, looking fwd to next month, and meeting everyone and experiencing a nokia world event for the 1st time.
Jualkeretasaya - August 24th, 2010 at 7:09 am
Congratulations to you!!

Best regards.