Nokia Announces Code Warrior at MoMo Silicon Valley Event

Nokia Announces Code Warrior at MoMo Silicon Valley Event

Nokia is on the hunt for Windows Phone apps.

The beleaguered phone maker today launched Code Warrior, a site where Windows Phone users and developers can propose ideas for apps and vote on them. Developers can then battle it out to create the best app for the challenge and earn the bounty that has been put on the app.

“Just because you’re a developer, does not mean you are innovative,” Chanse Arrington, head of Nokia’s developer and content marketing for North America, said at the Mobile Monday Silicon Valley event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. “Sometimes you need an idea.”

Arrington also touched on the tentative but increasing success of Nokia’s new Lumia 900. The company is banking on strong sales for that smartphone and other Windows Phone devices to get itself back on more solid footing in the scrum with the likes of Apple and Samsung.

In the Code Warrior initiative, bounties range from points to devices to actual cash, backed by Nokia or Microsoft. How much consumers vote an idea up or down will determine the value of the bounty.

To promote Code Warrior, a 14-city “hack-athon” tour will kick off in Houston, Texas, on May 10. Fourteen hundred devices will be offered as prizes during this tour. Via CNET News