CTIA-The Wireless Association announced the winners for the first annual CTIA Hot for the Holidays awards program, revealing this year's must-have mobile consumer electronics products and applications.
Winners across seven categories included "hottest:"
- Bluetooth Accessory - iLane from Intelligent Mechatronic Systems.
- Camera Phone - Nokia N86 8MP.
- Mobile CE Device - Eye-Fi Explore Video Card.
- Mobile Consumer Application - Jitterbug LiveNurse.
- Mobile Internet Device or Netbook - MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot for CDMA 1xEVDO RevA from Novatel Wireless .
- Novelty Accessory - Slim Data USB Card from Kempler & Strauss.,
- Smartphone - HTC Touch Pro2 .
Garnering the most online votes, Magneat from YOUnison was named the CTIA 2009 Hottest Web Pick. The Samsung Reclaim earned the most text votes onsite in San Diego and took home the CTIA 2009 Hottest in Show award.
It you want to buy the HTC Touch Pro2 as gift, beware .Although the HTC Touch Pro2 received excellent reviews, it has been out-of-stock for a while and is not expected to be in stock until later this month.