MWC 2011 Awards iPhone 4 Best Mobile Device

Well as you probably know during Mobile World Congress, they usually slap a few awards around to those they consider deserving and this years MWC event isn’t any different with the GSMA awarding the phone of the year award to none other than to Apple’s darling smartphone.
According to an article over on Daily iPhone Blog the GSMA have named the iPhone 4 as the device of the year, with judges commenting that the iPhone 4 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 smart phones.”
Which doesn’t really surprise anyone I bet. The award for device manufacturer of the year though went to HTC and the judges commented that the HTC desire ” set the bar for Android phones across much of the world in 2010. Packed with great features, this is an enduring product that has performed consistently well.”
The Best Mobile App award went to Rovio/Clickgamer/ Chillingo for you’ve guessed it…Angry Birds, with the judges commenting, ” This is an application that is simple, intuitive, incredibly addictive, and perfect for “snacking” consumption. It has underlined the importance of the applications market, and helped raise the credibility of small independent developers outside the mainstream.”
App of the year on the iOS platform again went to Angry Birds while the App of the year on theAndroid platform went to Google Maps.

Desktops & Laptops Dying Due to Smartphone Sales

As been said all along that smartphones and tablets are the way forward and so much so that they will kill off desktops and laptops within time, and now it seems to be heading that way according to a new survey.
Apparently and according to The Telegraph more mobile phones were sold that computers last year thanks to a new research and that PC’s were outsold by smartphones in the last quarter of 2010.
With many new smartphones like the Apple iPhone 4 and many Android smartphones that would take ages to list seems to be killing off desktops and laptops, around 100.9 million smartphones were shipped in October, November and December of 2010, whereas only 92.1 million PC shipments were listed.
The above numbers means that smartphone sales were up 87 per cent on the same period in 2009 and only three per cent up for PC shipments.
According to the source above IDC analyst Ramon Llamas said this is the case because PCs andsmartphones serve different purposes.
Many new tablets are being announced of late and these will start to overtake PC sales as well and with smartphone prices falling to an all time low for the buyer it seems desktops and laptops is a dying market. Many smartphones and tablets are being sold in supermarkets such as Tesco’s, which means the market will only get stronger for these devices.
Do you think the desktop and laptop will die a slow death to smartphones and tablets? I would love to know what you think.