Samsung Galaxy S II Beats iPhone 4S to Win Best Smartphone Award
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Posted March 1, 2012 at 1:36am by iClarified
The GSMA today announced the winners of the 17th Annual Global Mobile awards, held at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The Samsung Galaxy S II won for best smartphone beating out the iPhone which won best mobile device last year. Samsung also won the award for Device Manufacturer of the Year beating HTC who won last year.
"The 2012 Global Mobile Awards continue to showcase the greatest, most creative and innovative products and services driving the mobile ecosystem today and into the future. With a record number of high calibre entries this year, it is a significant achievement to have been honoured in today's ceremony," said Michael O'Hara, Chief Marketing Officer, GSMA. "The GSMA congratulates winners and commends all those taking part for raising the benchmark of contributions to mobile communications across the entire industry."
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The winners of the 2012 Global Mobile Awards can be found below:
Best Mobile App for Consumers Winner: Rovio Entertainment Ltd. - Angry Birds Rio
Best Mobile App for Enterprise Winner: Citrix Systems - Citrix Receiver
Judges Choice - Best Overall Mobile App Winner: WhatsApp Inc. - WhatsApp
Most Innovative Mobile App Winner: SwiftKey
Best Mobile Advertising & Marketing Campaign Winner: Brandtone - Carling Black Label "Be the Coach"
Innovation in Mobile Advertising Winner: Poken, the Leading CMS for NFC
Mobile Marketing & Advertising Agency of the Year Winner: [am.o.bee]
Best Enterprise Mobile Service Winner: Fiberlink - MaaS360
Best Consumer Mobile Service Winner: Google - Google Maps for Android
Best Network Product or Solution for Serving Customers Winner: Turkcell - Turkcell TiklaKonus
Best Product, Initiative or Service for Underserved Segments Winner: Safaricom - Grundfos
mWomen Best Mobile Product or Service for Women in Emerging Markets Winner: Etisalat, Qualcomm, D-Tree International and Great Connection Inc. - Etisalat Mobile Baby
Best Use of Mobile in Emergency or Humanitarian Situations Winner: UBL Omni - transparent and efficient Cash Disbursement service after the 2009 IDPs Crisis and the 2010 Flood Crisis
The Green Mobile Award Winner: Flexenclosure - E-site
Best Mobile Health Innovation Winner: Etisalat, Qualcomm, D-Tree International and Great Connection Inc. - Etisalat Mobile Baby
Best Mobile Innovation for Education or Learning Winner: OnPoint Digital - CellCast Solution
Best Mobile Innovation for Automotive, Transport or Utilities Winner: Ford Motor Company Ltd. - Ford SYNC with Emergency Assistance
Best Mobile Money Innovation Winner: Etisalat, MasterCard and Oberthur Technologies - Etisalat Commerce
Best Mobile Innovation for Publishing Winner: Financial Times and Assanka - The Financial Times Web App
Best Smartphone Winner: Samsung - Samsung Galaxy S II
Best Feature Phone or Entry Level Phone Winner: Nokia - Nokia C3-00
Device Manufacturer of the Year Winner: Samsung
Best Mobile Tablet Winner: Apple - Apple iPad 2
Best Embedded Mobile Device (Non-Handsets) Winner: AT&T - Garmin GTU 10
Best Mobile Broadband Technology Winner: KT - KT's Premium WiFi Solution
Best Infrastructure Technology Winner: Alcatel-Lucent - lightRadio Network
Best Technology Breakthrough Winner: Vodafone Group PLC - Quad Rate Technology: an evolved path doubling the efficiency of mobile voice
Best Cloud Based Technology Winner: Appcelerator - Titanium Integrated Development Platform
Best Technology Product or Solution for Safeguarding and Empowering Customers Winner: Cloudmark - Cloudmark Mobile Messaging Security Suite
GSMA Chairman's Award Joint winners: KDDI, NTT DOCOMO, INC. and SOFTBANK MOBILE
Government Leadership Award Winner: Government of the Republic of Colombia
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Hello seriously. I don't know if anyone's ever told you that. Apple INVENTED HD screens. Samsungs are bad and everyone knows it. Anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding
(Wireless Phone) My first foray into the smartphone world has my diernfs extremely jealous. I have played around with other people's smartphones for years, and never saw one as close to perfect as this one is. Great battery life, beautiful screen, wickedly fast processor (has set a record in quadrant benchmark), decent reception and call quality, and a strong gps that locks on my indoor location even in windowless rooms without the assistance of wireless networks! About the only thing that is missing is an LED notification light, but that is easily remedied with the Marketplace App NoLED, which does the trick nicely. I have also used the very buggy Epic 4G Touch on Sprint, and the form factor on this phone is superb not too big and classically simple aesthetics.
E7I think there must be a varition in build uliqaty, shame that. My E7 power button is easy to use and the screen raising/clam shell mechanism is smooth and easy to use. The metal body of the E7 is no different to the N8 and that model has sold in large volumes and I have not seen any commentary on the long term issues with its use but I suspect most people will use a case. The Symbian OS is not that great especially given the E7 has a slow 680 Mhz CPU. But Opera runs really well, only slightly slower than the Android browser on the HTC Desire. What I would say is that for call uliqaty (important for business) I have heard one reviewer say that the E7 is the best he has used. As you know I have a iPad and 2-3 Anroid phones. I will still be using the E7 as my main business phone as it has great call uliqaty and push email.
To all those "fanatics" of a brand remember that the CEO of apple got a nexus and it's ready tolds it can do more thing than an iphone... Not because something shine means it's gold ;)
Initiative idea or innovation count. iPhone is the first in this even though some features it has are out of date compare to the other; iPhone is still the winner to me!
Oriesko: ale my nikdo neme1me proble9m zaplatit si k a330 pauÅ¡e1lu jdeonre1zovÄ a3180 zato, že budeme medt iPhone 4. My me1me proble9m zaplatit si k a370 pauÅ¡e1lu na 2 roky jdeonre1zovÄ dalÅ¡edch a3470, abychom mÄli iPhone.Nebo jinak: když vezmu vÅ¡echny nabeddky v UK, tak pÅi 24 mÄsedÄnedm fapisu poÅeddedte iPhone 4 vesmÄs za a329, tenhle Samsung je pÅi stejne9m fapisu zdarma. Jestli tu bude tento Samsung ste1t s fapisem 6 tisedc KÄ (a3200), klidnÄ a329 pÅiplatedm za iPhone 4. Ale ne a3270 navedc.ProstÄ opere1toÅi v Äesku majed nejen obecnÄ nesmyslne9 ceny na pauÅ¡e1ly a telefony, ale navedc na iPhone nastavujed cenu o cca. 6 tisedc KÄ vedc, než kolik by odpoveddalo vzhledem k jeho cenÄ a cenÄ konkurenÄnedch mobilů s podobnou cenou. To je novinka od minule9ho roku, loni pÅed uvedenedm 3GS vÅ¡ichni najednou skokovÄ zvedli cenu iPhone 3G (a ne1slednÄ pak tak postavili i ceny 3GS), u jinfdch telefonů že1dnfd (natož skokovfd) ne1růst nebyl.
-1You are hilarious is so many ways.The avearge user doesn't care about a removable battery (for obvious reasons he doesn't want to carry a spare around), neither does he care for software flexibility as soon as the given software reaches a certain level of quality (which apple can reasonable claim to deliver). Video out is a minor feature that works mediocre on most android phones at best and requires an adapter. With an adapter, iPhones can do that just the same! (check your statements before blindly posting! ) As for mini-usb What's the advantage of having that? More cables lying around? Everybody has an apple cable at home.Even if there will be reasonable coverage with LTE sometime soon, it will still be around 10 years before anybody shuts down their 2G networks. Even if it were only 5, your phone would still be hopelessly outdated by the time we get there.Yeah, Samsung manufactures the A5 but Apple designed it. It's like Foxconn assembles and manufactures most parts of the iPhones but Apple designed them. Like AMD designs CPUs and GPUs but TSMC and Globalfoundries manufacture them. It's still an AMD product.Yeah, no doubt android phones have the potential and the hardware to provide a great interface. But avearge consumers don't buy potential. They buy things for what they are. And even if ICS will make Android more or less as smooth as iOS or WP7, most Android devices out now will never see that Android version.And I think generalizing from the Android device with the most powerful hardware to date is not something that would weigh against Android.And yes there are smooth launchers out there like Samsungs and Sonys default launchers but those are really just as constrained as apples iOS interface so that doesn't really count in Androids favor.And yeah, Google is new to smartphones, but Apple has a mere one year as a head start and iPhones had a smooth interface ever since the 3GS (cant judge the earlier versions) whereas Android still hasn't gotten there. So iOS took at most 2 years to get to that while Android still doesn't have it after 4 years.Performance boosts know their limits. I have tried any number of custom ROMs for my SGS/SGSII/Sensation/DesireZ. None of them manage to beat iOS.As for consumers buying iPhones without thinking Yeah but that is something that applies to just as huge a number of Android users. They have no idea what they buy but they buy it because it's being advertised like hell and everybody has one. This isn't a valid point against iOS users specifically but more against our consumption-driven society in general.
Well well look we got a Samsung user here, I'd never buy a Samsung phone, why? I already have an iPad and even if I did the 2 would never work or sync together well. So Apple is winning
...and the sheep had to point at why they are called iSheep....in any case, again, the award was for best smartphone, not best toy or best Coolaid, bwt netxt year they're planning on creating a new category, Most Lawyering or Company who Sues The Most, either that or Company Who Finds New Ways To Stop Development or Best Unfair Practices....in any case...
It all comes down to what you prefer, really, Galaxy II is a big ass phone it's not portable by any means, plasticy and unattractive, the 4S wins it for me
This is BS. My daughter tried that Samsung Galaxy SII whatever and ended up getting an iPhone4S instead. It's not bad but it can't beat the iPhone yet on usability and iPhone apps are way better than Samsung.
Mercedes or Porsche (to mension only 2) never had winned the best car of the year price, but they are on the top car manufatures and car wishes in the world. I will continue to use the Apple products and updating them as long as they are on the top of the technology and quality :) and i live happy without losing time with the others Vulnerabilities, long live the Windows and the Android, as long as they live the virus and vulnerabilities will not arrive on the OSX and iOS.
Lars, the minimum deifnitely serves as a filter. But I think something deeper is also happening here highlighting the difference between Flickr and Del.icio.us.On Flickr, people tag objects and scenes from their OWN life as such it reflects the idiosyncracy and subjectivity of individuals. On the other hand, articles tagged on del.icio.us are mostly links to articles or professional material.I think we will see a greater variety of tags when people tag personal stuff, as opposed to mostly professional stuff.
Mercedes or Porsche (to mension only 2) never had winned the best car of the year price, but they are on the top car manufatures and car wishes in the world. I will continue to use the Apple products and updating them as long as they are on the top of the technology and quality :)
and i live happy without losing time with the others Vulnerabilities, long live the Windows and the Android, as long as they live the virus and vulnerabilities will not arrive on the OSX and iOS.
....the fanboys are angry!!!!....btw the price was Best Smart phone, not best toy, that's why the SGS2 got it....btw I heard the next miPhone will come with a 12Mpx camera....sad cause most smart phones will be around 18 Mpx, I mean Nokia is at 41 Mpx
Samsung is good but it will never beat the iPhone . iPhone's quality is way better than Samsung , just 2 days ago I dropped one oft friends Samsung the screen cracked right away , cheap phone , but if u drop an iPhone from 100 floor trust me nothing will happen to it
It is a better phone that an iphone 4 but is just phone. Great and shiny and does the phone thing really well. I don't mind that my PDA, iPod, TV, ebook reader, radio, games machine and of course phone comes our second best.
Remember the iPhone 4s was not jailbroken when they compared it to galaxy S2. To be honest iPhones suck when it's not jailbroken. It's getting better though cos' alots of things are getting copy from the jailbroken iPhone.
Are they kidding me? samsung jealous!... Carriers are spending billions of dollars to affiliate with apple. I will never buy another phone besides an iPhone .
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