AppleInsider Staff
After being snubbed in 2013, Apple won the 19th annual Global Mobile Awards' "Best Mobile Tablet" for 2014 with the iPad Air, unseating last year's winners Google and Asus for their joint effort in the Nexus 7.
The iPad Air's award was one of many announced at the GSM Association's Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona, Spain this week. While Apple does not have an official presence at the large gathering, many products and services represented at the conference run on the company's various hardware and software platforms.
According to the judges' comments, "The iPad Air packs class-leading performance in an attractive and svelte frame, while its ecosystem has an undisputed advantage in the number of format-optimized apps."
Precision-engineered to weigh just one pound, iPad Air is 20 percent thinner and 28 percent lighter than the fourth generation iPad, and with a 43 percent narrower bezel the borders of iPad Air are dramatically thinner. iPad Air's Retina display makes web pages, text, images and video look incredibly sharp and realistic, and the new power-efficient A7 chip allows the battery to be even smaller, helping reduce the overall volume by 24 percent from the previous generation while doubling its performance and maintaining its up to 10-hour battery life.
Other notable Global Mobile Awards wins for 2014 include HTC's One for Best Smartphone, CityMapper for Best Overall Mobile App and LG for Most Innovative Device Manufacturer.
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"Mobile Tablet"? What? They're called iPads ;)
In contrast to the immobile tablets, such as the real Surface and what Samsung will be releasing once the 13” iPad comes out.
The term mobile phone came about because phones before that we're mobile but I fail to see why we need to qualify the term tablet with mobile.
[quote name="SolipsismX" url="/t/162185/gsma-names-apples-ipad-air-best-mobile-tablet-of-2014#post_2477813"]The term mobile phone came about because phones before that we're mobile but I fail to see why we need to qualify the term tablet with mobile.[/quote] I still wish some rich person would get me the Surface immobile table for playing RUSE...
The term mobile phone came about because phones before that we're mobile but I fail to see why we need to qualify the term tablet with mobile.
Probably because there are also examples of tablets which aren't quite so mobile, like for example the Microsoft Surface (Microsoft hardware and software) from around 2008 or so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxk_WywMTzc
This is version 2.0 from 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL9MbEM2N4o (Samsung hardware and Microsoft software).