Steven Fry announced the winners of the coveted GSM Global Mobile Awards at
the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Entertainment was provided by Duran Duran. The mobile personality winner was Steve Jobs and the handset winner was the HTC Hero.
The awards presentation included the winners of 19 categories, covering
Mobile Marketing and Advertising, Best Mobile Contribution to Social and
Economic Development, the Green Mobile Awards, Mobile Personality of the
Year, Mobile Innovation and Mobile Entertainment and at the evening
event two highlight awards were presented, the Best Mobile Handset and
the Chairman's Award for outstanding contribution to the growth and
success of the mobile industry.
THE 2010 GLOBAL MOBILE AWARD WINNERS:
- Mobile Industry Personality of the Year as Voted for by the Media
Winner: Steve Jobs, Co-Founder and CEO Apple . - Best Mobile Handset or Device
Winner: HTC - HTC Hero - Best Mobile Game
Winner: Iricom - The Last City - Fight For Your Life! - Best Mobile Music Service
Winner: Odyssey Music Group - Deezer - Best Mobile Advertising or Marketing
Winner: CLANMO GmbH and OgilvyOne - The IKEA PS Mobile Interior Planning Tool - Best Mobile TV Service
Winner: CBS Mobile - TV.COM - Best Mobile Location Based Advertising Campaign
Winner: R/GA - Nokia viNe - Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service
Winner: Research In Motion - BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 - Best Mobile Internet Service
Winner: adaffix Gmbh - YELLIX - Best Mobile Money Service
Winner: Safaricom - M-PESA (bulk payment & utility bill) extension to service - Best Use of Mobile for Social and Economic Development
Winner: Grameen Foundation, MTN Uganda, and Google - The Grameen Foundation Application Laboratory (AppLab) - Best Mobile Money for the Unbanked Service
Winner: Zain Bahrain B.S.C - ZAP - The Green Mobile Award for Best Green Programme, Product or Initiative
Winner: VNL - VNL's solar-powered GSM base station - Green Network Award
Winner: Mocambique Celular S.A.R.L (mcel) - Eco Naturalmente (Naturally Thinking Green) - Best Network Technology Advance
Winner: SkyCross Inc - SkyCross iMAT (isolated mode antenna technology) Antennas - Best Service Delivery Platform
Winner: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd - Huawei SDP solution - Best Billing & Customer Care Solution
Winner: Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) - You Individual Optimal Tariff Plan - Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough
Winner: Orange - Mobile High Definition (HD) Voice - Best Mobile Connected Device (non-handsets)
Winner: Novatel Wireless Inc. - MiFi Intelligent Mobile Hotspot - Government Leadership Award
Winner: Kenya - GSMA Chairman's Award
Winner: Carl-Henric Svanberg, Former CEO of Ericsson and currently Chairman BP
Mobile Innovation Grand Prix
The global final of the GSMA's Mobile Innovation Grand Prix competition,
part of the Global Mobile Awards, took place today at the Mobile World
Congress. The Mobile Innovation Grand Prix competition showcases
promising entrepreneurs from small and medium-sized companies bringing
innovative new products, services and applications to market. Over the
past year, four regional tournaments have taken place around the world
and two finalists from each tournament competed today for the Mobile
Innovation Grand Prix title. The winner, announced by Stephen Fry at
today's awards presentation, is:
- Ubidyne (US) for Antenna Embedded Radio
The Best Mobile Handset award is sponsored by Myriad, and the
entertainment for the Congress Party & Awards Celebration party is
sponsored by INQ Mobile. The Platinum sponsor for the Mobile Innovation
Grand Prix competition is the Generalitat de Catalunya. RIM and Qualcomm
also sponsor the Mobile Innovation Grand Prix competition and feed
winning innovators from their own in-house competitions into the
regional tournaments.