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(PRWEB) November 23, 2011

The SPARK Challenge aims to inspire high school students in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to start Sharing Possibilities for Applications in Research and Knowledge. If students have creative and innovative ideas for applications that they want to see running on smart phones or tablets, the SPARK Challenge wants to see them! SPARK challenges students to draw, scribble, or otherwise articulate their great idea for an Android application the app could promote sharing, organizing, collaborating, or communicating, or it could fill a void in the Android Market.

From now until December 30, high school students are encouraged to enter an idea for an Android app as an individual or as part of a team. The app should fall into one of three categories: education, business collaboration, or social responsibility. The entries must include an image and a description of how the app would work, but do not need to be technical. Entries are accepted and viewed through WizeHives online contest manager.

Getting high school students to think creatively about mobile technology encourages them to consider career opportunities they might not have thought of before, says WizeHive CEO Mike Levinson. As a startup, we love seeing students learning about entrepreneurship and innovation.

Increasingly we are seeing that students require and seek more experiential learning. We are immensely pleased to present the SPARK challenge to encourage students, both techies and non-techies, to think about creating apps for the Android Market that support business collaboration, knowledge transfer and approaches to social responsibility. Anthony Wensley, Director, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) at the University of Toronto, Mississauga.

About WizeHive

WizeHive offers a cloud-based platform that automates an organizations forms, workflows and business processes. These tools have been used to automate contests with WizeHive’s Online Contest Software; scholarships with WizeHive’s Scholarship Management Software; sales processes and more.

About SPARK

The SPARK Challenge is a partnership initiative between Samsung Canada and the University of Toronto, represented by the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) and the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI). The goal of the contest is to encourage students to think about how technologies may be used for social engagement, collaboration and knowledge dissemination. The contest is intended to have a low barrier to entry students dont have to be tech savvy to enter; just have a good idea. Although this is the inaugural year of the SPARK challenge, it is hoped that it will evolve into a yearly competition for high school and post-secondary students.

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Port Washington, N.Y. (PRWEB) November 14, 2011

According to The NPD Group, a leading market research company, the share of mobile phone handset sales that are smartphones continues to climb. The share of U.S. mobile handset sales that were smartphones reached 59 percent in the third quarter (Q3) of 2011, an increase of 13 percentage points since Q3 of 2010. Based on the latest data from NPDs monthly Mobile Phone Track service, average selling prices for smartphones have declined for four consecutive quarters, reaching $ 135 in Q3.

According to NPDs new Smartphone Track service, prices are falling even though many consumers originally considered paying more. Among U.S. consumers who considered purchasing phones in the $ 200 to $ 250 price range, 64 percent ended up purchasing a phone for less than $ 200. Led by continued steady sales for Apples iPhones, the top five best-selling mobile phone handsets in Q3 were as follows:

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The HTC Touch Diamond is a striving smartphone that comes with touch-oriented user interface. The phone comes with various small touches which make this phone more spontaneous to use. The basis of the Diamond is TouchFLO 3D. Htc Touch Diamond is a small in size and look appealing. The exterior of the phone has the faceted back panels which are slightly raised, that makes the smartphone easy to hold. The phone measures 3.9 inches by 2.0 inches by 0.42 inches (99mm x 51mm × 10.7mm) and features a 2.8-inch touchscreen with VGA resolution. The one control that the diamond has is an accelerometer which lets the user to control smartphone by moving it around. The Diamond has a built-in GPS and A-GPS ready with the support of Google Maps. The phone operates on Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (900/1800/1900 MHz) HSDPA (900/2100 MHz). The HTC Touch Diamond comes preloaded with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Operating System that is able to run a vast number of apps including tons of games (arcade, racing, RPG, etc.), alternate video players, and more. The user can also watch the live TV as the phone comes with SlingPlayer. The phone also has several business features like, Office Pack, which lets the user to work on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. The device also supports Exchange ActiveSync, Microsoft’s Push email system. The phone comes with a 528 MHz Qualcomm processor, and 192 MB of RAM that makes this phone a powerful software running device. HTC has mobile browser called Opera web browser. The user can also check their emails from any email account like HotMail and Gmail. The smartphone also supports Texting and MMS messaging. The Diamond supports two separate music and video players. One is part of TouchFLO 3D which is fingertip friendly and another one is the mobile version of Windows Media Player. This smartphone comes with a stand-along YouTube player. The HTC Diamond also has a built-in FM radio. The HTC Diamond comes with 4 GB of internal and external storage memory which can hold more than 1,000 digital songs or more than 2,000 pictures or up to 8 hours of MPEG-4 video. The Diamond offers Drive Mode which makes downloading and uploading files on the desktop or laptop at high speed. The Diamond is a GSM phone that support 3G networking. The Smartphone has Wi-Fi. This smartphone also has Bluetooth and USB port for data transferring. The device has an in-built 3.2 megapixel with auto focus camera which comes with a wide variety of resolutions to take pictures which makes the pictures looks nice. VGA videoconferencing camera is also there. The smartphone is a consumer friendly device. Now you can compare mobile htc phones like HTC Touch HD,Htc Magic,HTC Tattoo etc on various online mobile phone shop.

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