Winners announced in BlackBerry Partners Fund Developer Challenge

by Otoniel Bruno

18 November 2010 No Comment

Last night RIM held a award ceremony for the BlackBerry Partners Fund Developer Challenge. The winners for North America, Latin America, Europe/Middle East/Africa, and Asia Pacific were announced. Here’s the list of the winners:

North American Winner: Poynt
Latin America Winner: Vlingo Plus – Voice App
Europe / Middle East / Africa Winner: UbiNav EU
Asia Pacific Winner: Love Indonesia

Many of you are quite familiar with the first two – Poynt and Vlingo. Poynt is a popular location based service used to find out what’s around you using your GPS, including directions, and directories. My favorite part about it was that it would sync a found address then give me the option to navigate where it then takes me to my TeleNav app.

Vlingo has been out since I had my BlackBerry Pearl 8100 I believe. It was still in its early beta stages then, but it became a very reliable voice to text app for BlackBerry. Vlingo allows you to type in anywhere that a text field exists which was pretty amazing to see as is.

Click the links above to browse more on the applications.