Nokia has selected the 11 finalists for its Calling All Innovators global mobile developer contest, which attracted entries from a thousand developers

The Finnish handset giant will award up to $150,000 in cash and prizes to the ultimate winners, in addition to helping the winning developers distribute their apps worldwide.

Winners will be announced on February 17th at Mobile World Congress during a special Forum Nokia Calling All Innovators award ceremony.

The full list of finalists runs as follows:

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- PhotoMap (EMEA) - Digitises and stores a photograph of any fixed public map taken with a camera phone for easy access, browsing and geo-referencing on the mobile device.

- kReader Mobile (Americas) - Multi-language text-to-speech application with cross-language translation capabilities uses the camera phone to digitise any book, letter, receipt or other printed document and translate the captured text into audio that is "read" back to the user.

- Neuscreen (APAC) - Utilises the drawing, touch-screen and camera functionalities of a Nokia N95 device connected to a normal television set to track the motion of a simple pen light and enable "virtual" drawing, as well as projection and manipulation directly on the TV screen of images stored on the mobile device.

- X Dancery (China) -  Analyses any MP3 file to automatically generate a unique tempo-based game for each selected musical track.

ECO-Challenge

- GreenDrive (EMEA) - Promotes vehicular fuel efficiency by sensing current and impending road conditions that influence fuel consumption and providing real-time driving directions for the shortest route in the quickest time legally allowable.

- Ticketek Mobile Ticketing (Americas) -  Java event-ticketing application that reduces paper consumption by allowing consumers to use a barcode stored on their phone to gain admission to events.

- Green Phone (APAC) - An S60 application maximising battery life through improved regulation of device backlight, WLAN, Bluetooth and charger power consumption.

- TigerMap (China) - An eco-friendly city guide application that makes choosing public transportation easier, combining up-to-the-minute mass transit information with recommendations of the best restaurants, entertainment, hotels and shopping in more than 150 cities throughout China.

Emerging Markets

-mPedigree (EMEA) - This application allows users to text-message at no cost a quality-authentication code found on the packaging of anti-Malarial and other medications to a provisioned mobile shortcode in order to guard against counterfeit drugs believed to be responsible for an alarming number of deaths, especially in the developing world.

- DigitallCS (Digital Internal Control System) (Americas) - With this application, agricultural co-ops can inspect the growing practices of their members and upload the data to a website for reporting and analysis in order to verify the growers' adherence to standards that include Fair Trade Certified and Certified Organic.

- Nano Ganesh (APAC) - This application allows farmers in India to establish remote contact with distant, modem-equipped electric irrigation pumps, to check on power supply and pump operation without the need to travel long distances