[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quicksite:
Some of you know know me from my years here at XDA-DEVS using Windows Mobile Platform... and for creating the cross-platform recognition program for Outstanding Achievement in Touchscreen Application Development: the Devvy Awards. They are way slower than i would have liked getting off the ground, but anything non-commercial, and thus high-integrity-based takes extra resources.

In any case, in a few weeks, the long postponed tribute awards to Windows Mobile developers will take place -- from nominations gathered over last year. At same time, nominations will open for each of the 5 current touchscreen OS platforms -- with a reluctant neglect of Symbian this year.

Many of the AWARD CATEGORIES FOR APPS/WIDGETS etc are similar platform to platform, but there are differences too.. i.e., Android has Android-specific award categories (and challenges), so does iOS, webOS, etc. THUS MY QUESTION:

WP7 is so new that I don't truly think it's had appropriate proving time, but nonetheless it was decided to allow nominations for app-dev in WP7 for the few months of 2010, the qualifying period. And my question is, looking at this list below, are there any VERY SPECIFIC TO WP7 "challenges to developers" that are not reflected below that might merit being formulated into an award category.

Please keep in mind these are not ONE-OFFS... This is the establishment of structural precedents for the Devvy academy, if you will. So the nomination categories must stand the test of time and be relevant next year and the year after and so forth.

If you prefer to PM me, please do. I am asking this question pretty late, but the question struct me late -- and there is no other body of people on earth who can answer it than right here. Thank you. /quicksite

Outstanding Achievement in Creative Use of API's and Hardware by a Fitness Application

Outstanding Achievement in Developing of a Full Featured Chat Client (i.e. picture sharing, location aware, instant receive)

Outstanding Achievement in Integration of Social Applications into the Operating System APIs

Outstanding Achievement in Use of Geo-location Data to Deliver Actionable User Content

Outstanding Achievement in Development of a Full Featured Barcode Capture Application

Outstanding Achievement in Development of a Full Featured Podcast Grabber

Outstanding Achievement in Development for a Replacement Music Player

Outstanding Achievement in Development of a Full Featured Note Taking App

Outstanding Achievement In an E-Reader App

Outstanding Achievement in a Full Featured News Reader Application

Outstanding Achievement in Theme or Skin Development for [DEVICE]

Outstanding Achievement in Development of a Camera Modification App

Outstanding Achievement in Non-Native Browser Experience

Outstanding Achievement in Graphical Optimization for Speed and Performance in Games

Outstanding Achievement in Development of a Sports Application

Outstanding Achievement in a Streaming Radio Application (Pandora, Slacker Radio, TuneIn, Last.fm,)

Outstanding Achievement in a Streaming Music Catalog (MOG, Rhapsody, Rdio)

Outstanding Achievement in Usability and Creative Use of Speech Recognition APIs

Outstanding Achievement in a Map and Direction Client

Outstanding Developer Resource

Outstanding Achievement in Development and Support of Tethering

Outstanding Achievement in Live Tile Feature

Outstanding Achievement in Splash Screen Design

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