Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ win "Best Smartphone" award at MWC Shanghai

by Plamen Dimitrov / Jun 29, 2017, 2:15 AM

The Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ took home the "Best Smartphone" award at this year's Asia Mobile Awards (AMOs) held each year at Mobile World Congress Shanghai. This is perhaps the most prestigious accolade granted to the 2017 flagship pair to date, as the two handsets could not compete at MWC Barcelona due to being announced at a later stage.

MWC 2017 Shanghai has been organized in collaboration with GSMA, and it runs from June 28 through July 1. The Asia Mobile Awards were held on the first evening of the ongoing event. In a press statement released today, Samsung said that a panel of journalists, analysts and market influencers assessed the candidates based various criteria such as physical design, user experience, innovation, value for money, and so on.

The award was accepted by Mr. Tong Wang, Executive Vice President of Samsung Electronics China. As a whole, Samsung Electronics is receiving a lot of recognition throughout this week. Prior to the latest prize, the company's "Ostrich Dream" ad bagged a whopping seven awards at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the biggest event of its kind in the advertising industry.

source: Samsung

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18 Comments

1. trojan_horse

Posts: 5868; Member since: May 06, 2016

Winning awards has become Samsung's habit... Not surprised. #TheNextGalaxy

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 2:25 AM 16

4. Podrick

Posts: 1285; Member since: Aug 19, 2015

The trolls are in pain rght now lmao!

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 3:34 AM 10

7. trojan_horse

Yo, Podrick! Let them go grab their butthurt and salty forms. LMFAO... SMH.

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 5:35 AM 10

8. Podrick

Not so many comments yet, probably those trolls can't think what to write. Will be back with same old unoriginal Lag and explosion comments haha.

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 5:52 AM 7

9. trojan_horse

"Not so many comments yet, probably those trolls can't think what to write." I suppose they are busy on their butthurt report forms. They aren't done filling the form yet!

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 6:33 AM 6

2. pokharkarsaga

Posts: 557; Member since: Feb 23, 2012

Best Design : Samsung Best Overall Smartphone : HTC U11

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 3:11 AM 0

3. omnitech

Posts: 1131; Member since: Sep 28, 2016

No surprise here. I haven't seen anything yet, rumoured or announced that can touch this. Definitely not the iPhone 8 Bankz whacks off about. Only two phones left that can snatch the phone of the year award away from the GS8 is the pixel xl 2 and the Note 8. I have a strange neither will quite match it though. It's too good!

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 3:29 AM 7

5. MrShazam

Posts: 987; Member since: Jun 22, 2017

Well, looks like occasionally lagging, which every computer does, isn't as big of a deal as some immature trolls try to make it look...

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 4:45 AM 9

14. Flash

Posts: 1972; Member since: May 19, 2017

It has the latest processor. It shouldn't be suffering from lag.

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 3:58 PM 0

6. darkkjedii

Posts: 31605; Member since: Feb 05, 2011

Kudos Samsung. Samsung took one to the chin last year, and trolls 10 counted them. They came storming back, and I give them props. The S8/Plus are killing it, and The Note 8 is on deck.

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 5:20 AM 8

10. ShadowSnypa786

Posts: 623; Member since: Jan 06, 2017

Well done Sammy the S7 edge won best smartphone at MWC for 2 years in a row in 2016 and 2017. Now the S8 duo won best smartphone at AMO's :D Reviewers and mobile award shows always prove the Sammy is at the top of its game.

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 7:25 AM 5

11. Darkkracker

Posts: 255; Member since: Jun 11, 2016

it is a very nice phone. somebody stole my iphone 7 so I am back to android with an s8+. nice phone so far.

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 9:13 AM 4

12. AnnDroid

Posts: 90; Member since: Aug 02, 2011

Congrats to Samsung!

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 11:49 AM 0

13. jeroome86

Posts: 2314; Member since: Apr 12, 2012

Good job Sammy. Get some tissues ready Techie. Boys and girls cover your eyes. It's about to get NC-17 in here. Lol.

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 11:59 AM 0

15. Flash

Winning awards for a phone with a half baked interface? The Samsung sheep are blinded by Samsung marketing.

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 3:59 PM 0

16. trojan_horse

Are you done filling your salty report form, yet...? flashmite?

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 5:09 PM 3

18. darkkjedii

That's better than winning with a watered down one, with a static grid of icons. Ehhh... battymiteflashmxy

posted on Jun 29, 2017, 6:45 PM 4

17. mudcat626

Posts: 231; Member since: Jul 13, 2016

Well, they wouldn't give the award to a company that doesn't attend their convention. With that award and a dollar Samsung can buy a cheap cup of coffee.......