My 2 cents. PlusMinus, Peli and Zhobbs are great community commiters, however, that won't be taken into consideration during judging.
Everything below is listed to what I would say if I were a judge. As for their apps, I know nothing about what Zhobbs has submitted, but OpenIntents is actually a developer library rather than an application itself, hence, the juddges will probably judge their sample apps and I doubt that those will get high scores with regards to idea originality and indespensibility - there are a lot far more original and indespensible apps at the challenge. As for PlusMinus's AndNav - it's cool and polished, quite indespensible, however, the originality of idea and the use of Android features marks will most probably be quite low here as actually not much used. Good examples of the apps that will get the high scores in all 4 categories are location-based games like PK and Wi-Fi Army (PK will have a little lower score in the usage of Android platform, though), also map-based application called Marvin and Enkin. I would even say that Marvin will score more than Enkin as it's more functional and inspensible. As for Pocket Journey- I don't see anything cool in here, the idea is quite old (check Wikimapia, for example), polishing and usability are definetely not at the top, usage of Android is limited to map services/ multimedia only and it's dispensability is really under question (I would imagine that only some pensioner tourists as well as some "walking encyclopedias" will be interested). However, they might be able to get a grant from their local municipality or something for that sort of thing, as it actually promotes tourism :) Intentionally not talking about our app, hope to receive some judging on it after we release our first teaser. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
