Apple’s iPhone 4 wins Best Mobile Device award at Mobile World Congress

ZAGG Sport Leather for iPhone 4“Apple didn’t attend Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but it took the event’s top award for a mobile device,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider

“The event, a major confab of the mobile industry, has been virtually ignored by Apple in much the same way as the more general Consumer Electronics Show held in January,” Dilger reports. “Apple not only fails to show at both events, but also appears to leak news or hold press events of its own that tend to overshadow the announcements of competing firms.”

Dilger reports, “Judges didn’t hold that against the company however, calling iPhone 4 ‘Best Mobile Device,'” saying that it has a ‘great screen, sharp design, fantastic materials, and phenomenal ecosystem for app developers. In a tight race, the iPhone 4 built on the success of its predecessors to set the pace for smartphones.'”

Read more in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Manny S.” for the heads up.]

17 Comments

  1. I don’t think that is fair!!!
    The MWC is for companies copying apple’s products. That is about who make the best copy of the iPhone, so is not fear to give them the award to the phone they are trying to copy (sarcasm)

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