Telecom industry association GSMA announced the shortlisted nominees for the 2018 Asia Mobile Awards.
GSMA will honour winners of the Asia Mobile Awards during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai on 27-29 June.
Category 1. Mobile Tech
Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough – Asia
Airtel and Huawei for CloudAIR Solution
Goodix Technology for Optical IN-DISPLAY FINGERPRINT SENSOR™
Huawei for Huawei MEC Solution
KaiOS Technologies for KaiOS, the emerging OS
SK Telecom for TANGO & T-MANO
Best Innovation for LTE to 5G Evolution
Huawei and China Mobile for Connected Ambulance & Intelligent Transportation
Huawei for 5G Core solution for LTE-to-5G Evolution
Huawei for 5G Oriented Evolution Solution
KT for KT’s Innovation toward 5G
SK Telecom and Samsung for Perfect 5G Connectivity: The Enabler of Autonomous Driving
Best IoT Innovation for Mobile Networks
China Mobile and Ericsson for World’s first cellular IoT-based ‘connected factory’
China Telecom and Huawei for NB-IoT and IoT Platform Commercialization
Huawei for Narrowband/Broadband Integrated IOT for Smart Grid
KT for IoT Innovation Through NB-IoT
Sierra Wireless for AirPrime® HL78 Cellular LPWA Modules
SK Telecom for Multi-IoT Network & Service
Category 2. Consumer
Best Mobile App for Connected Living
CastBox for Castbox
China Unicom for Intelligent Customer Service
Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited for “JioTV enabling Jio Digital Life”
SK Telecom for T map x NUGU
WorldRemit for WorldRemit – A better way
Category 3. Fourth Industrial Revolution
Best Mobile App for Business
dacadoo for dacadoo digital Health Engagement Platform
Edelweiss Broking Ltd for Edelweiss Mobile Trader App
Huawei for Mobile Video Conference as a Service Platform
Mahindra Comviva for payPLUS Unified Payment Acceptance
Uros Ltd for Goodspeed Roaming App
Best Mobile Innovation for Smart Cities
China Mobile Steps Tianjin and Huawei for – Location Insight Service Platform
Cisco for Cisco Kinetic for Cities
Huawei and Gaoqing Government for A Smart Gaoqing County with Huawei eLTE
KT for GiGAeyes
Nokia for Nokia Shanghai Bell
SK Telecom for Smart City Public Safety Network
Category 4. Device
Best Smartphone
Apple for Apple iPhone X
Google for Google Pixel 2 XL
Huawei for Huawei Mate 10
Samsung for Samsung Galaxy Note8
Samsung for Samsung Galaxy S9+
Category 5. Disruptive Device Innovation
Insta360 ONE
JioPhone 4G VoLTE feature phone
Nintendo for Nintendo Switch
Vivo X20/X21 UD
Category 6. Social Good
Best Mobile Innovation for Emerging Markets
BIMA & Axiata for Driving Financial Inclusion
Experian for Experian MicroAnalytics
Huawei for 5G Microwave Bringing TCO Saving to Emerging Markets
Huawei for Huawei Mobile Money
Unitel Mongolia and Huawei for “Ger Internet” WTTx Wireless Broadband Solution
Outstanding Mobile Contribution to the UN SDGs in Asia
Huawei for PoleStar Sustainable Connectivity Solution for Better Cities
ICT, Robi Axiata Ltd. and Huawei Technologies for Sustainable Development ICT Training
Jazz for Jazz Smart Schools
Smart Communications and Ateneo de Manila University for SHINE OS+
Worldreader for Worldreader
Category 7. Outstanding Achievement
Women4Tech – Asia Mobile Industry Leadership
China Unicom for Lou Yu
Ericsson for Girls in ICT initiative in Northeast Asia
Huawei for Chen Lifang
ZTT for Shanshan Cao