The winners of the first round of andriods Developer Challenge have been and can be pleased about every 25,000 U.S. dollars prize. Google as the most prominent member of the Open Handset Alliance, had been Initiated in late 2007 several prizes for the best programs for the new smart phone platform Android.

Google had concretized its mobile plans in November 2007 and announced in conjunction with others in the Open Handset Alliance organized company, the open system platform Android. Shortly thereafter, the company introduced a preview version of the development environment, which has since learned – including for security problems – some updates.

Almost a month after the end of the first round of the competition, the total is now 125-member jury reviewed all the 1788 entries and selected the 50 most promising candidates. They can participate in the second round of competition, however, starts only when the first Android devices are available. With the first premium to finance the development of the programs will be made possible. The developers of the top ten applications, waving at the end of the second round of reward per 275,000 U.S. dollars, ten more will be at a premium of U.S. $ 100,000.

The winners list is still provisional – so that Google pays the money must be made by the participants in the next three months or several documents. Otherwise the premium.