Competition for developers on the bada platform

Yesterday, May 17, 2010, the world competition “bada Developer Challenge” started, with a total prize fund of $ 2,700,000 and a separate tour in Russia, with a prize fund of $ 255,000, for developers on the bada platform (ru: wiki).

The Samsung bada Developer Challenge Russia lasts 5 months (from May 17 to October 17, 2010) and includes 3 stages:

Stage 1: May 21 - August 17: Registration of participants
Stage 2: development of an application on the emulator (from June 1 to August 17)
App evaluation - from August 18 to August 31
Announcement of the winners of the 1st stage - September 1
Stage 3: porting the application to a mobile phone from bada (from September 13 to October 17)
App evaluation - from October 18 to November 7
Announcement of winners - from November 8 to November 12 (the exact date will be announced later)
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I would also like to note that the platform’s site already has a free SDK (beta v. 1.0.0b2), which can be obtained after free registration (registration in Russian is not yet available).