Microsoft and Nokia giving 100 Windows phones to developers in Czech Republic

Nokia and Microsoft are Nokia are doing their best to marketing support the Nokia Lumias on all fronts. After a great campaign for the media and general public, now comes the time to turn to the developers since for more massive expansion of the Windows Phone platform developers are a key group. 

Because of that Nokia and Microsoft will motivate the developers in Czech Republic running new contest.

They will be awarding Lumia 800s to the first 100 developers who get three apps to the Marketplace and total fifty downloads.  The contest has been running since February 1 and will continue until May 31, or until the 100 phones have been given out.

Source Mobilmania.cz

Via WPCentral

Awesome competition from Microsoft Canada

Microsoft Canada have just started a promotion entitled "The Developer Movement" where they are handing out cool toys to dev's just for publishing high-quality apps to the Windows Phone Marketplace

The promotion is called The Developer Movement and runs from the 16th December to the 20th May.

Here are the rewards:

PUBLISH 1 QUALITY APP        
Select a reward below: 

• A Kinect™ Sensor for Xbox 360® 

• 10,000 Microsoft Points 

• Monster® Beats™ Headphones 

• A 1TB External HD 

PUBLISH 2 QUALITY APPS      
Select a reward below:     

• A Windows® Phone 7     

• A $500 Gift Voucher     

• 35,000 Microsoft Points     

• An Xbox 360® with     

• Kinect Bundle 

PUBLISH 3 QUALITY APPS      
Your apps will be considered by our judges for publicity across:     

• The Xbox Newsletter     

• The Xbox Live Dashboard     

• MSDN Website     

• MSDN Flash Newsletter     

• Canadian Developer Blog

Source: The Developer Movement  Via: WPCentral