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HWM+HardwareZone.com Tech Awards 2011 Editor's Choice - Part 1

By Team HardwareZone - 2 Mar 2011

Best Business Smartphone

Best Business Smartphone

Lately, the line that separates business-centric smartphones from its fully featured cousins has become very muddled. But when it comes to the crunch, the one thing you can depend on, is its capability to churn out that document or email at record speeds. Hence, we place a strong emphasis on well-powered smartphones with the right form factor, i.e. an ergonomic physical QWERTY keyboard, to work with ease.

Nominees:

  • HTC Desire Z
  • Motorola Milestone
  • RIM BlackBerry Torch 9800

And the Winner Is...

When business calls for it, you can count on the Motorola Milestone to be the Best Business Smartphone for all your productivity needs.

A fruitful year it has been for Motorola, when they got back into the game with the aid of Google Android. In fact, that's one of the reasons for including the Motorola Milestone into Tech Awards 2011. Its fluid performance, reworked user interface and additional tweaks to the Android platform, working in tandem with a sleek profile that also houses a highly usable keyboard, gave us ample reason to bestow the title of the Best Business Smartphone to the Milestone.

Scoring Breakdown
Criteria/Model HTC Desire Z Motorola Milestone RIM BlackBerry Torch 9800
Design 8.5 9.0 8.0
Features 8.5 9.0 8.0
User-Friendliness 8.5 8.5 8.5
Performance 7.5 9.0 8.5
Value 8.5 9.5 8.5
Overall 8.5 9.0 8.5
Price S$868 S$888 S$999

For more details on how we selected our winners, check out the full reviews and articles listed at the References section at the end.

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