Recombu Mobile Awards 2012 winners announced

Last night we held the second Recombu Mobile Award, celebrating the best mobile phones, tablets, apps and accessories from the last year.

The winners were announced in a ceremony in London, presented by Recombu’s own Hannah Bouckley and Alex Todd. The awards chosen through a combination of public vote and the Recombu Editorial team. Winners in the handset category included the Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One S and Huawei Ascend G300. The Apple iPad 3rd generation won best tablet and SwiftKey 3 was named app of the year.

O2 was awarded network of the year, while Three’s The One Plan won network innovation – two awards voted for by Recombu Mobile readers.

The winner of the Google Nexus 7 tablet is Emma Fenn – congratulations!

Mobile Innovation

Motorola RAZR Maxx
NVIDIA Tegra 3
Nokia PureView
Samsung S-Pen
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor
SumUp

WINNER: Nokia PureView Technology

Best Cameraphone

Apple iPhone 5
HTC One X
Huawei Ascend P1
Nokia 808 PureView
Samsung Galaxy S3
Sony Xperia T

WINNER: Nokia 808 PureView

Mobile Accessory

Breffo Spiderpodium
Elgato EyeTV Micro
HTC Car StereoClip A100
Motorola MOTOACTV
Pong Classic
Triggertrap

WINNER: Motorola MOTOACTV

 

Best App

Hailo
Lookout
Magic Town
Netflix
Sky+ (for iPad)
and SwiftKey 3

WINNER: Swiftkey 3

Network Innovation

Bemilo
O2 Priority Sports
Phones4u Jump
Orange Samsung Galaxy S3 with QuickTap
T-Mobile The Fully Monty
Three The One Plan
Virgin Media Premiere

WINNER: Three for The One Plan

 

Best Network

giffgaff
O2
Orange
T-Mobile
Tesco Mobile
Three
Virgin Media
Vodafone

WINNER: O2

Best Tablet

Apple new iPad
Asus EeePad Transformer Prime
Disgo 9104
Google Nexus 7 by Asus
Motorola Xoom 2 Media Edition
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1

WINNER: Apple iPad 3rd generation

 

Best Value Phone

Acer Liquid Glow
Alcatel One Touch 916
Huawei Ascend G300
Nokia Lumia 710
Sony Xperia Tipo
ZTE Kis

WINNER: Huawei Ascend G300

Best mid-range phone

HTC Desire X
HTC One S
Huawei Ascend P1
Motorola RAZR i
Sony Xperia Go
Sony Xperia U

WINNER: HTC One S

Best Smartphone

Apple iPhone 5
BlackBerry Bold 9900
HTC One X
LG Optimus 4X HD
Nokia Lumia 800
Samsung Galaxy S3
Sony Xperia T

WINNER: Samsung Galaxy S3