global mobile awards 2014

             

Best Smartphone

HTC One

The HTC One redefines the smartphone experience, packing in a host of already acclaimed features. HTC BlinkFeed provides you with the latest news and social content direct to your home screen, a photo gallery that comes to life through HTC Zoe technology, and dual frontal stereo speakers. Its sophisticated design and precision detailing sets it apart from the rest of the smartphones available today. The HTC One combines stunning award-winning design with beautiful, intuitive and simple-to-use software. The processor is powerful, the screen is sharp and the speakers loud, crisp, and clear, thanks to HTC BoomSound. Complemented by an innovative UltraPixel camera that defies megapixel mythology, the HTC One was assuredly the best smartphone of 2013.

Judges’comments

The HTC One remained one of the most advanced smartphones throughout 2013. Its great design and excellent user interface continue to provide a differentiated user experience, standing out from the competition

Best Low Cost Smartphone

Nokia Lumia 520

The Nokia Lumia 520 is one of Nokia’s most affordable Windows Phone 8 smartphones, delivering experiences normally only found in high-end smartphones.

Judges’comments

A smartphone that hasn’t compromised on quality – a trailblazer for Nokia’s low-cost efforts

Best Entry Level or Featurephone *

Nokia 105

The Nokia 105 is the ideal device for the first-time phone buyer, featuring a bright color screen with clear menus and essentials like FM radio; multiple alarm clocks; speaking clock; a dust and splash-proof, pillowed key pad; and a flashlight. Its durability and up to 35-day battery life also make it ideal for people seeking a back-up device

Judges’comments

Outstanding value for money, with impressive durability and battery life, this is driving mobile penetration into further markets

Most Innovative Device Manufacturer of the Year *

LG

Judges’comments

Impressive across the board with ground-breaking innovation – LG is flexing its technological muscle

Best Mobile Tablet

Apple iPad Air

Precision-engineered to weigh just one pound, iPad Air is 20 percent thinner and 28 percent lighter than the fourth generation iPad, and with a 43 percent narrower bezel the borders of iPad Air are dramatically thinner. iPad Air’s Retina display makes web pages, text, images and video look incredibly sharp and realistic, and the new power-efficient A7 chip allows the battery to be even smaller, helping reduce the overall volume by 24 percent from the previous generation while doubling its performance and maintaining its up to 10-hour battery life.

Judges’comments

The iPad Air packs class-leading performance in an attractive and svelte frame, while its ecosystem has an undisputed advantage in the number of format-optimized apps

Best New Mobile Handset, Device or Tablet at Mobile World Congress 2014

Samsung Gear Fit

Judges’comments

The Samsung Gear Fit is the first wearable device that is innovative, creates value and has a great and differentiated design, three essential ingredients to make this category relevant and attractive to consumers.

Best Mobile Infrastructure

Nokia Solutions and Networks with Telefonica O2 UK Limited for iSON Automation for Operations

Nokia Solutions and Networks’ iSON automation for operations helps to rapidly resolve network outages and assure operator revenues. Telefonica o2 UK realized the following:
• Automated over 10,000 repetitive manual actions a month
• 70% alarm reduction
• 40% reduction in site visits
• Up to 10% savings in energy (estimate)
• Up to 2 million Euro OPEX savings a year
iSON automation for operations enables operational transformation: by reducing time-consuming manual interventions, operations personnel are freed to engage in more proactive maintenance tasks. This helps to improve network availability and service quality, which in turn increases subscriber satisfaction.

Judges’comments

Removing complexity through clever automation is at the heart of this interesting example of how best to implement SON (self Organising Networks) to help improve the speed and cost of network deployment.

Best Entertainment App (Gaming, Music, Sports, Video)*

Device 6

DEVICE 6 plays with the conventions of games and literature, entwines story with geography and blends puzzle and novella, to draw players into an intriguing mystery of technology and neuroscience.

Judges’comments

Innovative game design with fantastic synthesis that recognises the physicality of a mobile device

Judges Choice – Best Overall Mobile App *

CityMapper

Citymapper is reinventing the everyday urban transport app and making the large complicated city simple and usable.

A to B journey planning, real-time departure info on all modes of transport where available, weather, alerts, disruptions and everything you need and may not even realise that you need to manage your life in the city.
Our mission: Make cities easier to use.

Judges’comments

The travel app with every possible route, timings and cost. We’d be lost without it

Most Innovative Mobile App

PointGrab for CamMe

CamMe is a gesture based camera app that changes the way people take pictures, allowing you to take pictures from distance without touching the device. Just raise your hand, close it to activate the camera, CamMe will count 3, 2, 1 and you can pose and smile, a great new selfie will be taken. CamMe is powered by PointGrab, a leader in gesture recognition software solutions offering a natural way of interacting with devices. Over 20 million CE devices are already enabled with hand gesture control powered by PointGrab on world’s top brands including Samsung, TCL, Skyworth, Lenovo, Acer, Fujitsu.

Judges’comments

An App that changes the way we take pictures forever. Utilizing clever hand gestures, this cool and ingenious app is for the new age of the Selfie!

Smartphone App Challenge

Akbank T.A.S. for Akbank Direkt Mobile App

“Akbank Direkt Mobile” is formed of iOS, Android and Windows 8 apps which were all developed in-house by Akbank Direkt IT Mobile Team. The apps are built upon a user- oriented design supported with a great level of resource efficiency. Each app is developed according to the platform based design guidelines which allow them to response faster. Network payload is balanced by best use of JSON and GZIP data compression methods which also provides minimum response time of transactions. “Login with Single Password” feature enables users to log in with only one step, a unique banking experience in other words.

Judges’comments

This is a really well thought through piece of app design which is both device and network friendly and thus greatly enhances the users experience.

View the full list of winners and finalist for the 2014 Global Mobile Awards here.