GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2013 Nominees announced


The GSM Association has announced the nominees for the 18th annual Global Mobile Awards. 158 nominees have been shortlisted for the Global Mobile Awards 2013. 32 awards will be presented during the ceremony which would be take place on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013 in Barcelona. Here are some of the nominees in the Global Mobile Awards 2013 in Mobile, Tablet and App categories.

Best Smartphone of the year

  • Apple for iPhone 5
  • HTC for Droid DNA / J Butterfly / HTC DLX
  • Nokia for Lumia 920
  • Samsung for Galaxy Note 2
  • Samsung for Galaxy S3

Best Feature phone or entry level phone of the year

  • Nokia for 103
  • Nokia for Asha 302
  • Nokia for Asha 305
  • Samsung for C3312 Duos

Best Mobile Tablet of the year

  • Amazon for Kindle Fire HD 8.9
  • Apple for iPad Mini
  • Apple for iPad with retina display
  • Asus for Transformer Infinity
  • Google for Nexus 7
  • Samsung for Galaxy Note 10.1

Best Mobile App for Consumers

  • Burbn Inc for Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Google Inc for YouTube
  • Imangi Studios LLC for Temple Run
  • Twitter

Best Mobile App for Enterprise

  • DataViz Inc. for Documents to Go – Premium Office Suite
  • Dropbox
  • Evernote
  • Google for Google Drive
  • PayPal

Apart from these, other categories include, Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough, Best Cloud Based Technology for Mobile, Best Mobile Safeguard & Security Products and Services and more. You can view the complete list of nominees from Globalmobileawards website.

The award panel include, 160 independent analysts, journalists, academics and subject matter experts throughout the world. Chief technology officers of 14 mobile operators took part in judging the Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology award.


Author: Srivatsan Sridhar

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