You know that Steve Jobs was selected as a mobile industry personality of the year as voted for by the media. Here’s the full list of winners of the coveted Global Mobile Awards, which was announced at the Mobile World Congress. Let’s roll:
- Best Mobile Game: Winner: Iricom – The Last City – Fight For Your Life!
- Best Mobile Music Service: Odyssey Music Group – Deezer
- Best Mobile Advertising or Marketing: CLANMO 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 viNe
- Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service: BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0
- Best Mobile Internet Service: adaffix – YELLIX
- Best Mobile Money Service: Safaricom – M-PESA (bulk payment and 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 – VNL’s solar-powered GSM base station
- Green Network Award: Mocambique Celular S.A.R.L (mcel) – Eco Naturalmente (Naturally Thinking Green)
- Best Network Technology Advance: SkyCross – SkyCross iMAT (isolated mode antenna technology) Antennas
- Best Service Delivery Platform: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd – Huawei SDP solution
- Best Billing & Customer Care Solution: Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) – You Individual Optimal Tariff Plan
- Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough: Orange – Mobile High Definition (HD) Voice
- Best Mobile Handset or Device: HTC – HTC Hero
- 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 and currently Chairman BP
- Mobile Industry Personality of the Year as Voted for by the Media: Steve Jobs, Co-Founder and CEO Apple
Also announced at the Mobile World Congress is the winner of GSMA’a Mobile Innovation Grand Prix competition, which showcases promising entrepreneurs. This year’s winner is U.S.-based Ubidyne and it was awarded for its Antenna Embedded Radio solution.