South Korean technology giant Samsung walked away with three awards at the 18th Annual Global Mobile Awards at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
Samsung won 'Best Smartphone' for its Galaxy S3 and 'Best Mobile Infrastructure' for its Smart LTE Networks, as well as the coveted 'Device Manufacturer of the Year' title.
Google and Asus shared the award for 'Best Mobile Tablet' for the Nexus 7, while the Nokia Asha 305 was named 'Best Feature Phone or Entry Level Phone'.
British comedian David Walliams hosted the award ceremony at the exhibition and was joined onstage by representatives from sponsors McAfee, Myriad and Telmap, and media partners CNBC, Fortune and Time.
GSMA Ltd CEO John Hoffman said, "Through these awards, we are proud to shine the light on the mobile industry's many innovators and leaders, from all corners of the world.
"This year's new categories reflected the industry's reach into many new sectors and we received more than 600 high-quality entries from across the mobile ecosystem."
The judging panel for the awards was made up of more than 170 industry experts, journalists and academics, and 13 representatives from a number of different mobile operators.
The 2013 Global Mobile Awards winners
Best Mobile Health Product or Service
MIPsoft for BlindSquare
Best Mobile Education or Learning Product or Service
Mobilink for SMS Based Literacy program
Best Mobile Product or Service for Automotive
BMW i, MINI, Sixt and Vodafone Group for DriveNow Premium Car Sharing
Best NFC/Mobile Money Product or Service
Etisalat for Flous - The Etisalat Commerce Programme
Best Mobile Publishing Product or Service
Ver Se Innovation for NewsHunt
Best Mobile Innovation for 'Smart Cities'
Streetline for Parker
Best Mobile Enabled Consumer Electronics Device
Samsung Electronics for Samsung GALAXY Camera
Best Enterprise Mobile Service
Mobilelron for Version 5 Complete Enterprise Persona
Best Consumer Mobile Service
Comviva for Mahindra Comviva's mobiquity™ MFS platform powering mTicketing service for Bangladesh Railways
Best Advertising or Marketing on Mobile
McCann Worldgroup (Hong Kong) for Chok! Chok! Chok!
Best Network Product or Solution for Serving Customers
NTT DOCOMO for Hanashite Hon'yaku, world's first automatic voice translation service
Best Product, Initiative or Service in Emerging Markets
Ericsson for Amazon Connection– a digital inclusion program in the Amazon
GSMA mWomen Best Mobile Product or Service for Women in Emerging Markets
Asiacell for Almas Line
Best Use of Mobile in Emergency or Humanitarian Situations
Vodafone Foundation for Vodafone Instant Network
The Green Mobile Award
Indus Towers for Green Sites Project
Best Mobile App for Consumers
Facebook
Best Mobile App for Enterprise
Evernote
Judges Choice – Best Overall Mobile App
Waze
Most Innovative Mobile App
McCann Worldgroup (Hong Kong) for Chok! Chok! Chok!
Smartphone Application Challenge
AT&T for Application Resource Optimizer (ARO)
Best Application using Network APIs
Bharti Airtel Limited for my airtel app
Best Smartphone
Samsung Galaxy S3
Best Feature phone or entry level phone
Nokia Asha 305
Device Manufacturer of the Year
Samsung
Best Mobile Tablet
Google and Asus for Nexus 7
Best Mobile Infrastructure
Samsung Electronics for Smart LTE Networks
Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough
Accuris Networks for AccuROAM Wi-Fi: Making Wi-Fi a carrier driven extension of GSM for Offload and Roaming
Best Cloud Based Technology for Mobile
Jasper Wireless cloud-based connected devices platform for machine-to-machine (M2M) and consumer electronics
Best Mobile Safeguard & Security Products and Services
AdaptiveMobile and Syniverse for Messaging Trust
Outstanding LTE Contribution
SK Telecom for 4G LTE with PETA Solution
Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology – The CTO's Choice
Samsung Electronics for Smart LTE Networks
Spectrum for Mobile Broadband Award
Government of New Zealand
Mobile for Development Award
US Agency for International Development
m-Government Award
Government of Moldova
