At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last night the GSMA announced the “2010 Global Mobile Award Winners” and Steve Jobs took home the prestigious “Mobile Personality of the Year” Award. He was not there but was recognized for his contribution to the mobile industry, specifically for the iPhone. In addition, top mobile handset went to HTC for the Android-powered HTC Hero. When it comes to a Canadian company being represented, RIM shined with “Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service: Research In Motion – BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0”.
Here is a full list of all the winners:
Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough: Orange – Mobile High Definition (HD) Voice
Best Mobile Handset or Device: HTC – HTC Hero
Best Mobile Game: The Last City – Fight For Your Life!
Best Mobile Music Service: Odyssey Music Group – Deezer
Best Mobile Advertising or Marketing:: CLANMO GmbH and OgilvyOne – The IKEA PS Mobile Interior Planning Tool
Best Mobile TV Service: CBS Mobile – TV.COM
Best Mobile Location Based Advertising Campaign: R/GA – Nokia
Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service: Research In Motion – BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0
Best Mobile Internet Service: adaffix – YELLIX
Best Mobile Money Service: Safaricom – M-PESA (bulk payment & utility bill) extension to service
Best Use of Mobile for Social and Economic Development: Grameen Foundation, MTN Uganda, and Google – The Grameen Foundation Application Laboratory (AppLab)
Best Mobile Money for the Unbanked Service: Zain Bahrain B.S.C – ZAP
The Green Mobile Award for Best Green Programme, Product or Initiative: VNL’s solar-powered GSM base station
Green Network Award: Mocambique Celular S.A.R.L – Eco Naturalmente
Best Network Technology Advance: SkyCross – iMAT Antennas
Best Service Delivery Platform: Huawei – Huawei SDP solution
Best Billing & Customer Care Solution: Mobile TeleSystems – You Individual Optimal Tariff Plan
Best Mobile Connected Device (non-handsets): Novatel Wireless – MiFi Intelligent Mobile Hotspot
Government Leadership Award: Kenya
GSMA Chairman’s Award: Carl-Henric Svanberg, Former CEO of Ericsson
Via: MocoNews & IntoMobile
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