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

By Team HardwareZone - 2 Mar 2011

Best Smartphone

Best Smartphone

Here we go - the one category that really matters. What are the ingredients to making the definitive smartphone for the year? It's a combination of aesthetics, usability, performance and value. On top of that, one has to look deeper into its software, and what it can offer through its app ecosystem. With these factors under consideration, choosing the Best Smartphone for Tech Awards 2011 is one not to be taken lightly.

Nominees:

  • Apple iPhone 4
  • HTC Desire
  • LG Optimus 7
  • Motorola Milestone
  • RIM BlackBerry Torch 9800
  • Samsung Galaxy S
  • Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

And the Winner Is...

With all the right ingredients in place, the HTC Desire is crowned as the Best Smartphone in this year's Tech Awards.

Two years in the making with the Google Android OS, and a strong partnership with HTC led to the birth of the HTC Desire, and also our Best Smartphone for Tech Awards 2011. Hardware-wise, the Desire loads itself with a swift Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz processor and a generous and comfortably-sized 3.7-inch OLED screen (which was later switched to S-LCD due to a supply shortage). More importantly, it's the updated HTC Sense UI, and the intuitive out-of-the-box experience, that fulfills what we think a Best Smartphone should be – a high-powered, feature-loaded device that lets you start your smartphone journey in just a few seconds.

Scoring Breakdown
Criteria/Model Apple iPhone 4 HTC Desire LG Optimus 7 Motorola Milestone RIM BlackBerry Torch 9800 Samsung Galaxy S Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
Design

8.5

9.0 8.0 9.0 8.0 9.0 8.5
Features 9.0 9.5 8.5 9.0 8.0 8.0 8.5
User-Friendliness 9.0 9.0 8.0 8.5 8.5 7.5 8.5
Performance 8.0 8.5 8.0 9.0 8.5 9.5 8.0
Value 9.0 9.5 8.0 9.5 8.5 8.5 7.5
Overall 8.5 9.0 8.0 9.0 8.5 8.5 8.0
Price S$888 S$798 S$888 S$888 S$999 S$1098 S$1088

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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