Rhomobile Announces Additional Details for $10,000 Mobile Application Development...

Rhomobile Announces Additional Details for $10,000 Mobile Application
Development Challenge

Mobile Application Development Challenge Expands Prize Packages and Extends
Submission Deadline to May 24, 2009

CUPERTINO, Calif., April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Rhomobile today announced
additional details for their Mobile Application Development Challenge
including an extended deadline date and additional prize packages. To enter
the contest, developers must complete a free registration available at the
Rhomobile website by April 15, 2009. The contest promotes Rhomobile's Rhodes
framework, which allows developers to write once to create native apps for all
leading smartphones including iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and
Android, and features a $10,000 grand prize.

"As a web developer I have always wanted to create mobile applications and
now, with Rhomobile's Rhodes, I can develop for multiple mobile phones without
having to learn additional heavy weight programming languages," said Makoto
Inoue, a Mobile Application Development Challenge contestant. "The Rhomobile
Mobile Application Development Challenge is a great opportunity for developers
like myself to utilize Rhodes and push ourselves to be creative."

The Rhomobile Mobile Application Development Challenge was organized as a way
to encourage developers to experiment with Open Source and the Rhodes
framework, which allows developers to write native applications for
smartphones using HTML templates. Rhomobile is encouraging contest submissions
that utilize the access Rhodes provides developers to smartphone capabilities
such as GPS, PIM contacts and camera.

"Rhodes allows developers to write once for all five major smartphones using
HTML and Ruby, providing ease-of-use and efficiency in creating robust native
applications," said Adam Blum, CEO of Rhomobile. "With the Mobile Application
Development Challenge, we wanted to create an opportunity for developers
around the globe to discover what Rhodes is capable of, while providing an
incentive to push their creativity and our framework to the limits."

The Mobile Application Development Challenge submission deadline date has been
extended to May 24, 2009, enabling developers to use the latest release of
Rhodes 1.0, with a first prize of $10,000 to the individual or company
building the best mobile application. Additional prize packages will include
iPhone 3G 16GB, AT&T (HTC) Fuze with Windows Mobile, BlackBerry Storm
smartphones, Nokia N97 and G2 Google Android phones. The grand prize of
$10,000 will be announced on June 1, 2009 and additional prizes will be
announced at a later date.

Contest Requirements
-- Registration deadline: April 15, 2009
-- Application submission deadline: May 24, 2009
-- Applications must run on at least two device operating systems

-- Applications must operate upon synchronized local data via RhoSync

Criteria for Judging
Rhomobile will evaluate submissions in the following areas:
-- Application Originality: value proposition to end users and usefulness
of the application
-- User Experience: overall usability of the application
-- Device Leverage: demonstration of device capabilities

-- Code Quality: documentation and maintainability of the code

Availability
Register for the Mobile Application Development Challenge by April 15, 2009 at
http://rhohub.com/contest.

The Rhodes framework is now available at http://www.rhomobile.com/download.

About Rhomobile
Rhomobile Inc., a privately held venture-backed company, provides Rhodes, the
industry's first open source mobile framework. For more information on
Rhomobile visit www.rhomobile.com

Rhomobile and Rhodes are registered trademarks of Rhomobile, Inc. All other
registered or unregistered trademarks are the sole property of their
respective owners.

Media Contact:
Anders Steele
FortyThree, Inc.
831.239.0960
anders@fortythreepr.com

SOURCE Rhomobile Inc.

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for Rhomobile Inc.