Nominations for the Top Ten Product Awards, plus Retailer and Network awards 

 

It’s that time of year again – the Mobile Choice Consumer Awards are rolling up for October and we’ve published our nominations for each award.

 

We’re doing things a bit differently this year – you, our valued readers, will be voting on this longlist to help us create the official shortlist for each award category. Head here to cast your votes – and to go into the running to win a Samsung Galaxy S II, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, BlackBerry PlayBook, Nokia E7 or Motorola Atrix complete with Lapdock and Work’n Play Kit.

 

Vote now – or scroll down to see who we’ve nominated this year, and don’t forget, if you think we’ve missed out a worthy contender, you can enter your nomination in the voting form itself.

 

TOP 10 PRODUCT AWARDS

 

Best Handset for Social Networking
Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, email or sharing photos, we want you to tell us which handset you think gets you most social

 

INQ Cloud Touch
HTC ChaCha
HTC Salsa
HTC Wildfire S
Samsung Wave II
Motorola Defy
BlackBerry Bold 9780
Motorola Milestone 2

 

Best Camera Phone
Mobile cameras are increasingly replacing point-and-shoots – which of these would you replace yours with?

 

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo
Samsung Galaxy S II
Apple iPhone 4
LG Optimus 2X
Samsung Omnia 7
HTC Gratia
Nokia N8

 

Best Video Phone
A new category this year, this aims to single out the best device for recording great-quality video.

 

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo
Apple iPhone 4
HTC Sensation
LG Optimus 3D
Samsung Galaxy S II

 

Best Bluetooth Headset

Talking on the go and sans hands – made better by one of these headsets
Jabra Extreme
Jabra Stone 2
Plantronics Discovery 975
Plantronics Voyager Pro+
Jawbone Era
Blue Ant Q 2
Etymotic Etyblu2

 

Best Media Phone
Movies, games, music and internet are best viewed on one of these

 

Samsung Galaxy S II
Apple iPhone 4
HTC Sensation
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo
LG Optimus 2X
Samsung Wave II
Motorola Atrix

 

Most Innovative Device
This new category awards the phone that best displays innovation in the use of mobile technology

Motorola Atrix
LG Optimus 3D
LG Optimus Pad
Asus Eee Pad Transformer
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
HP TouchPad
BlackBerry PlayBook
HTC Flyer

 

Best Value Phone
Smartphones for less? Yes indeedy – and make it one of these

 

Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo
INQ Cloud Touch
HTC Wildfire S
Samsung Galaxy Ace
LG Optimus One
HTC Gratia
Orange San Francisco
Alcatel OT990

 

Best Android Phone
Android is now the top-selling smartphone OS in the US – tell us which you think is the best phone for it

 

Samsung Galaxy S II
HTC Sensation
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
LG Optimus 2X
Motorola Milestone 2
INQ Cloud Touch
HTC Salsa
Orange San Francisco

 

Tablet of the Year
Which is the best (and best-looking) tablet of 2011?

 

Asus Eee Pad Transformer
Apple iPad 2
BlackBerry PlayBook
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
Motorola Xoom
LG Optimus Pad
HTC Flyer
HP TouchPad

 

Phone of the Year
Which do you think was the phone to beat this year?

 

Samsung Galaxy S II
HTC Sensation
Apple iPhone 4
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
HTC Desire S
LG Optimus 2X
Samsung Omnia 7
BlackBerry Bold 9780

 

VOTE IN THE 2011 MOBILE CHOICE CONSUMER AWARDS

 

NETWORK AND RETAILER AWARDS

 

Best Online Retailer
Expansys.com
Clove.co.uk
Affordablemobiles.co.uk
Mobilephonesdirect.co.uk
Mobilefun.co.uk
Buymobilephones.net

 

Best High Street Retailer
Carphone Warehouse
Phones 4u
O2
Orange
Three
Vodafone
T-Mobile
Virgin Media
Go Mobile
Fonehouse

 

Best Customer Experience
Carphone Warehouse
Phones4U
O2
Orange
Three
Vodafone
T-Mobile
Virgin Media
Go MobileGo Mobile
Fonehouse

 

Best Network
O2
Orange
T-Mobile
Three
Vodafone
Virgin Media
Tesco Mobile

 

Best Customer Care
O2
Orange
T-Mobile
Three
Vodafone
Virgin Media
Tesco Mobile

 

Manufacturer of the Year (non reader  nominated)

To the manufacturer that had the greatest impact on the market

 

Samsung
Apple
HTC
Motorola
LG

 

 

VOTE IN THE 2011 MOBILE CHOICE CONSUMER AWARDS