Craterzone Won the Telegram App Competition

Delhi,India, February 13, 2015 (Newswire.com) - Breaking news to Telegram fans among Blackberry engineers, Telegram announced a  coding contest in December 2014. Task is to port Telegram for BB 10 using the open source Java code of the Android app. A prize fund of $50,000 will be distributed among the winners.

BlackBerry Contest Results: 

Craterzone win the first price in Telegram app competition.

As a result of the contest, 6 promising apps are now available for download in BB World. Please note that Telegram cannot recommend any of these apps to our users the way we usually do with other Telegram products, as each of them requires a significant number of improvements. However, progress has been made since December, so today we are honoring the six winners.

Two developers won the first prize, $10,000 each. Another four developers won the second prize, $5,000 each.

The first $10,000 goes to Sourabh Kapoor CTO of Craterzone PVT Ltd– the only participant to fully implement the design specified in our contest announcement. His app Unofficial IM App for Telegram provides all of the required functions, however, as a ported app, it lacks speed and its interface isn't quite responsive.