Samsung Galaxy S II beats iPhone 4 for smartphone of the year

October 11, 2011 By Rick Marshall

Apple's iPhone 4 loses out on top smartphone award, while Samsung Galaxy S II takes home the prize.

Apple’s iPhone 4 may have been the favorite to win best smartphone of the year at the annual T3 awards show, but it was Samsung’s Galaxy S II that walked away with the prestigious award.

Organized by the UK-based website T3 and now in its fifth year, the awards show has come to be recognized as one of the most prominent annual presentations of the best of the year’s consumer electronics offerings,

The iPhone 4 was expected to earn the top nod in the smartphone category, due to its record-breaking sales on its first day of release and its status as the last iPhone to launch under Steve Jobs’ tenure. However, it was Samsung’s celebrated Galaxy S II that won the day.

Among the potential reasons many cite for the iPhone missing out on the “best smartphone” award is its notorious tendency to drop calls due to problems with its antenna placement.

Along with the Galaxy S II and the iPhone 4, other phones nominated in the category include the HTC Incredible S, Motorola Atrix, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, and the HTC Sensation.

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Neil Simon Beddoes at 12:02am 15th May 2012 what a sucking in for apple... :-)
Tommy Chun Fung Ngai at 8:23pm 11th October 2011 go samsung
Dan Herzeleid at 8:09pm 11th October 2011 All the Apple fanboys get butthurt by this news; there are more important things in the world other than the lastest crApple release. iPad sounds like a feminine hygiene product, what's next, the iDildo, the iWank, and the iRape?
Jared Sirilo at 7:41pm 11th October 2011 @ Imac Id Your english is attrocious. With heavy use and lack of using the task manager any phone will have a terrible battery life. Even your precious iphone. You cant accept the fact Androids gotten as good as an iphone. My family has two of these s ll's and they are nice.
Lucas Meyer at 7:00pm 11th October 2011 @ imac, funny how you say only last 3 hours, mine last well past 3 hours,. fanboy.
Andrew Smigaj at 6:54pm 11th October 2011 Apple* stupid auto correct
Andrew Smigaj at 6:53pm 11th October 2011 Again its all a preference. In terms of being left behind on any basis is like one said "apples to cauliflower" I am an android user. I run 2.3.5 on my Droid x. It gets me rediculous battery life on the original. But its not the disinterest in apple, its what I can do with android that I cannot do with application.. run flash, flash new roms like I change my underwear, and be based in a community with no rival. My metaphor is like this; Pandora radio may be the first, but it is simply no longer the best.
Eric M Burley at 6:00pm 11th October 2011 I prefer anything running windows mango. Best OS out. I understand people don't like MS, that's fine. I have last year's Surround w/ a zune pass. I stream unlimited music, have full Xbox access, beautiful app layouts, movies, podcasts videos FAST, take pics/vid all on my phone. Left this post with it too. Im pretty sure you guys are getting left behind...
Roy Anthony Vann III at 4:43pm 11th October 2011 Um apple has a really nice and well put together phone but im sorry apple, i like change I'm true to life and love change and if they don't change the darn iPhone shape construction SOMETHING!!!!! I don't even upgrade my PC with he same case i look for something with my stylio screaming out of it!! I can't stand the fact that it just has better insides f that i want better all around new device construction cause i know apple can do it but please please if the rumor of thinness, screen edge extension, and possibly although far fetched concept the light keyboard would get me to jump to apple ios. But till then i remain with my allegiance to the Linux kernelFact: Linux OS's has up times of years?? No one else does!!!!
Dan Herzeleid at 4:29pm 11th October 2011 Apple = crap, and any moron that doesn't know how to extend their battery life of the phone they use, shouldn't be using one. If you have a 3 hour battery life, you obviously don't know how to disable running applications that sap battery life.
Zak Ott Stone at 4:21pm 11th October 2011 This is like comparing apples and cauliflower. No one likes Cauliflower. :)
Ayaan Poojary at 4:20pm 11th October 2011 i can sae nexus will rule but people prefer galaxy s2 its awesme nexus people dnt use much coz many of d indians use phne for just shw off i truly sae it
Imac Id at 4:18pm 11th October 2011 Samsung is suck , and battery is only 3hours
Imac Id at 4:18pm 11th October 2011 Bullshit
Atley Joseph at 4:14pm 11th October 2011 I'm with Soto on this one. I mean really to have a phone from June 2010 competing with 2011 models. Those other manufactures should be f'n embarrassed.
Navin Shan at 4:10pm 11th October 2011 iphone 5 will come only next spring by then apple would have lost the race lol, Android Nexus is going to be launched soon!
David Nakamura at 3:48pm 11th October 2011 People that buy into these polls and articles are just as zombified as the rest of the lemmings. ALL technology comes down to personal preference, mobile is NO different. This is always the way it'll be the same way I can find anything with Bing you can find with Google. End of discussion, each solution is best for the individual that prefers it.
1. Rahul Desai at 2:31pm 11th October 2011 Ssh, you're using logic and basic reasoning. You'll confuse the morons.
  1. Mike Marra at 5:17pm 11th October 2011 i am confunded! ;)
James Phillips at 3:48pm 11th October 2011 So this year's Samsung beats last year's iPhone? Wow!
1. Fe Loreta Estrella at 6:25pm 11th October 2011 by that you just declared yourself to be a no brainer... lol
Ratshabedi Phuti at 3:42pm 11th October 2011 bad 4 steve jobs :-(
Jose Ramos at 3:41pm 11th October 2011 who cares
Thomas Gill at 3:38pm 11th October 2011 Boo!
1. Fe Loreta Estrella at 6:01pm 11th October 2011 by that comment you declared yourself to be an american citizen... well, you should patronize your own brands even though we all know that some of its most important components are from Samsung and made in China of course... no wonder that most of you are out of jobs today... lol
Tengiz Jincharadze at 3:36pm 11th October 2011 :)
Muhammad Hosain at 3:35pm 11th October 2011 :(
Moises Soto at 7:28am 11th October 2011 Interesting to see iPhone 4 battling for Smartphone of the year, being a 2010 Smartphone. That is an accomplishment by itself.
1. Ian Bell at 7:35am 11th October 2011 Agreed. I am surprised too. I originally thought Rick was referring to the iPhone 4S until he mentioned the antenna issue (which is clearly iPhone 4). I guess the awards are not just based on specs/technology, but on sales too.
  1. Fe Loreta Estrella at 6:18pm 11th October 2011 now, is not that what iPhone always boasts of " sales " even without proof of sales... the iPhone 4s has already boasted a million units pre-ordered in just 24hrs, w/c of course we all know is just hot air... hyped-up media blitz is one of Aplle's forte... but I'll tell you that Job's iPhone 4 failure is one big blackeye that Cook has to wear for a long time...
2. Mark Daniel Haddon at 8:58am 11th October 2011 also it dose not make phone calls it that a accomplishment too
iMan at 6:03am 11th October 2011 Just wait till the iPhone 5 comes out. THAN we see who's the winner
1. callandor87 at 9:04am 11th October 2011 Yes, yes... THAN we see who's the winner. And THAN we celebrate!
2. Fe Loreta Estrella at 5:54pm 11th October 2011 @IMAN... you have to understand that iPhone 5 that you so cherish and long for is still a bummer... and that you should know that all of Apples iPhone models have worms in their core... lol