The GSMA today announced the winners of the 18th Annual Global Mobile awards, held at the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona. The winners were honoured in an afternoon ceremony hosted by writer, actor and comedian, David Walliams.
Walliams entertained nominees and attendees with a comic introduction to the ceremony. He was joined on stage by representatives from sponsors McAfee, Myriad and Telmap, and media partners CNBC, Fortune and Time, who co-presented awards, as well as John Hoffman, CEO, GSMA and members of the judging panel.
In total, more than 170 independent analysts, journalists, academics and subject matter experts and 13 representatives from mobile operators throughout the world participated in the judging of the 2013 awards.
The winners of the 2013 Global Mobile Awards are:
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
U.S. Agency for International Development
m-Government Award
Government of Moldova
"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," said John Hoffman, CEO, GSMA Ltd. "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. We would like to congratulate all Global Mobile Awards winners and thank the many hundreds of companies and organisations that support these awards by entering each year."
