The Windows Phone 7 Rockstar Award contest was started a few months back and was aimed at all the aspiring community of developer students all over the globe. There were a total of 131 entries which were designed either using Silverlight or XNA framework.
All the application were tested on emulators as well as Windows Phone 7 mobile devices.
Here are the profiles of all the three winners :
| Winner |
Country/Region
|
Finalist Team Name
|
| 1st Place |
United States
|
Beastware
|
| 2nd Place | Indonesia | Tselina |
| 3rd Place | Malaysia | Hypo Team |
Prizes :
- First Prize: $8,000 USD, a trip to the Worldwide Finals in Warsaw, Poland from July 3-8, 2010, and a Windows Phone for each team member.
- Second Prize: $4,000 USD and a Windows Phone for each team member
- Third Prize: $3,000 USD and a Windows Phone for each team member
Application idea or design :
Team Beastware : They came up with a Game developed in XNA game framework called “Droid”.This game leveraged the use of the accelerometer on the device.
Team Tselina : They presented a comic book reader in Silverlight, with rich graphics and great navigation features.
Hypo Team : They came up with a game written in XNA, again with appealing graphics, and with a nice interface.
The Windows Club congratulates all the winners and wishes them good luck! 
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