GSMA Awards announced, here are the winners (cough, Samsung)

29 February, 2012
Android, iOS and Series 40 all took home an award. Some companies went home empty handed however.

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  • AnonD-30218
  • KId
  • 01 Mar 2012

Best tablet- iPad 2? Really? Did you people forget the ICS loaded Transformer Prime?

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    • Anonymous
    • PRW
    • 01 Mar 2012


    so Samsung is the king of smartphone.

    Nokia is the king of dumbphones !!,

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      • Fred
      • IaA
      • 01 Mar 2012

      Saveferris, 01 Mar 2012@ Sony Fanboy Xperia Arc...Sexy smart phone Xperia Play.... moreI don't have either brand, but I will comment on the assumption that seems to be made that more processor, more memory etc somehow makes the device better.
      As anyone who has had numerous Microsoft software powered PC's over the years will tell you a modern PC has a processor several thousand times 'more powerful' (my first PC had a 16bit 286 running at 6mhz) with several hundred times more memory (that PC had 512k (YES K) bytes (for the whole OS, all the apps etc.... how do these modern guys get away with claiming their multi megabyte apps are 'embedded'???) and a collosal (it was in those days) 32 MByte (yes M not G) hard drive. Yet, if I want to edit a word document it is still FASTER to get that machine out, power it up, load DOS, load win, then load word than to try the same with my modern laptop.

      More processor, more memory, more disk does NOT make a more usable machine. As someone once said - not what you've got but how you use it.

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        • Shail
        • 3xy
        • 01 Mar 2012

        Guys, Whether u like it or not need to admit that S2 is the best smartphone till now for its powerhouse performance and no phone matches it. I am not a samsung guy being a user of HTC models for long i happened to use S2 and it was amazing in terms of performance and i am sure the panel members in GSMA are not fools to award it.

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          • AsHu cRZEEEee
          • vIw
          • 01 Mar 2012

          hahaha i expected!!!!!! and the result was the same........!!!!!
          samsung r0ckzzzzzzzzzzzz

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            • Toxin 5
            • Nhr
            • 01 Mar 2012

            I would say this year things will be on fire, if we have projector phones on the brim. we are very close to halograms.

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              • AnonD-30640
              • 3iv
              • 01 Mar 2012

              Anonymous, 01 Mar 2012S II Always be NO.1 I dont think so! With the phones announced at the MWC your beloved s2 is not even in the top 10! Even Huawey got better than it. Do i need to mention Nokia? I think you should wait for your S3 to save the day! But im not so sure about it either. Samsung, go back to your TV-s! At least that is what you do best!

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                • Anonymous
                • mCi
                • 01 Mar 2012

                S II Always be NO.1

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                  • Convert
                  • m4N
                  • 01 Mar 2012

                  Saveferris, 01 Mar 2012@ Sony Fanboy Xperia Arc...Sexy smart phone Xperia Play.... moreI have an S2, great phone and worthy of top slot, but don't count Sony out.....

                  I had many Sony phones before, and they still top Samsung with refreshing design and interface sometimes. Samsung are leaping ahead with their screen technology.
                  Just can't see myself going back to screens of lesser vibrancy and mediocre contrast ability.

                  Sony will be back.....
                  Apple are on there way out (along with Blackberry)...
                  Nokia are merely drifting at sea with a hole and no bucket.

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                    • iSung
                    • wrr
                    • 01 Mar 2012

                    I'm Apple users & I love apple product. They are the best for me. If you talk about innovation ? nothing like Apple. but ......

                    CONGRAT's for SAMSUNG for the Best Smartphone & Manufacture 2012

                    I hope Apple could learns about this, and more innovation.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • 0cC
                      • 01 Mar 2012

                      Touchwiz sux!!

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                        • Anonymous
                        • TfX
                        • 01 Mar 2012

                        Jake, 29 Feb 2012Will good to hear that samsung galaxy sII is the best smart... morethe category was for a phone, not the apps =)

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                          • Anonymous
                          • TfX
                          • 01 Mar 2012

                          Samsung winning the best smartphone and manufacturer categories aren't really a surprise. Samsung has been making the best out there, even their TVs. And what's great about the company is they don't overcharge. The prices are reasonable enough.

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                            • Techno
                            • 9La
                            • 01 Mar 2012

                            Steven, 01 Mar 2012I agree... the only reason Apple didn't win this year was b... morewhat's with the "G"?

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                              • Anonymous
                              • LFW
                              • 01 Mar 2012

                              This thread is amusing, really. "My phone and brand of choice won the award then is the best! I should show the light to all the idiots who doesn't know the truth" and on the other hand we have this "My phone didn't won, nor my brand of choice, so I must bash at people who are happy because their phone/brand did won.".

                              This kind of awards are useless. Why? Simply, it's a matter of taste and necessity, for example my 61 years old mother thinks that her VERY OLD, monochromatic screen, no touch screen, no apps, Nokia 1100 is the best cell phone in the world. Why? Because it does what she wants, which is texting and making calls.

                              So just like my mother the best smart phone is the one that it does what YOU need. Who cares about awards? Did you buy your phone thinking that it would win awards, or because you thought it was the best for you? If your phone/brand won, cool be happy! But don't think that just because that is the best for everyone. If your lose, well, who cares? You think is good for so, who cares what other people may think.

                              Peace!

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                                • Saveferris
                                • tAR
                                • 01 Mar 2012

                                Sony Fanboy, 29 Feb 2012Xperia Arc...Sexy smart phone Xperia Play...Gamers arena w... more@ Sony Fanboy
                                Xperia Arc...Sexy smart phone
                                Xperia Play...Gamers arena wid smart phone...
                                Xperia Mini & mini pro...the power of smartphone in mini...
                                Xperia Ray...stylish yet powerful...
                                Xperia Pro...Chat @ its best...
                                Xperia Active...Rugged to perform
                                Live with walkman...Android with Walkman touch...

                                Where is sony ericsson...?? sony ericsson outdoes samsung in every way...design...features...performance...
                                Ddoes samsung pays everytime to get these awards...???


                                That was very amusing. The Samsung galaxy s2 is better than all those phones in every single facet, from CPU GPU to memory Screen tech etc...in every single possible way the Sony ericsson's are inferior, thats why the Sony's don't get a mention....Enjoy your inferior phones. :)

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                                  • Steven
                                  • 0HW
                                  • 01 Mar 2012

                                  Jake, 29 Feb 2012Will good to hear that samsung galaxy sII is the best smart... moreI agree... the only reason Apple didn't win this year was because the 4s has no 4g and the same design as last year... but SGSII is still a good and deserved to win... I think 2012 will be much harder to decide

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • thu
                                    • 01 Mar 2012

                                    Ronny, 01 Mar 2012Oh yeah, definitely is what I expected. Benchmark tests and... moreto whom you have mention?

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                                      • Ronny
                                      • DBA
                                      • 01 Mar 2012

                                      Oh yeah, definitely is what I expected. Benchmark tests and reviews will tell you why it is the best smartphone. I don't think Sony Ericsson's smartphones come close enough. I would say Apple, HTC and Motorola are the real contenders at the moment. BTW, Nokia still make good phones.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • Qxp
                                        • 29 Feb 2012

                                        GDT, 29 Feb 2012Man what the hell's wrong with u nokia fans? Y r u bashing ... moreHahahahahaha .. you seem like an useless hero of samsung man, what happened to you? You are talking as the samsung users are never bashing Nokia . And I said,it was quite naturally if the users nokia were bashing back on, you can read how the samsung users bash nokia users in many news in gsmarena.com but nokia users were never come to your android news to bash your android,it proves that nokia user is more clever than your android users and this also proves that you are too jealous of nokia. I think nokia is has a lot of smartphone phones And can say a lot of nokia phones is smarter than samsung's.