Mr. Phone Awards 2018 Winners Announced

India's fastest growing tech publication - Mr. Phone - has initiated a set of prestigious awards commemorating the best-of-the-best in smartphone innovations. The brand raised a toast to the best smartphones by initiating the maiden edition of the Mr. Phone Awards 2018 in the capital.

This year has been a particularly outstanding one for the smartphone industry with many legacy brands continuing their steady growth by adopting new phone trends. From pop-out cameras to triple-camera setups on phones, some new and exciting smartphone trends were observed by the industry watchers. We've also seen the emergence of new brands that have disrupted the space with some stellar offerings and Mr. Phone has been at the top of all the advancements in smartphone technology and has tracked the Indian smartphone space consistently all throughout 2018.

 

To help Mr. Phone finalise the winners, the publication assembled an eminent set of jury members. The members of the jury included: Abhishek Baxi from Android Authority, Ash from C4ETech, Ershad Kaleebullah from Mr. Phone, Harish Jonnalagadda from Android Central, and finally, Tushar Kanwar from BusinessWorld and The Telegraph.

This esteemed jury picked winners across nine different categories. Here is a list of all the winners:

Best Flagship Phone - Samsung Galaxy Note 9

Best Budget Flagship Phone - Poco F1

Best Mid-range Phone - Nokia 7 Plus

Best Budget Phone - ASUS ZenFone Max Pro M1

Best Camera Phone - Google Pixel 3/Pixel 3 XL

Best Multimedia Phone - LG G7+ ThinQ

Most Innovative Phone - Vivo Nex

Best Operating System - Oxygen OS

Most Promising Newcomer - Poco

And, the coveted award for the Most Popular Phone of 2018 - for which, close to 10,000 Mr. Phone users cast their votes - was won by the OnePlus 6/6T.

Admittedly, the OnePlus 6/6T won by a very close margin, but eventually, it managed to score the snag the maximum number of user votes.

Speaking about the inaugural Mr. Phone awards, Mr. Sumesh Menon, CEO and Co-founder, U2opia Mobile said, "We are ecstatic to receive such an overwhelming response from the Mr. Phone users and, we'd like to thank all the jury members who helped us in selecting the best brands that the consumers love across different categories."

"The initiation of these awards are just a starting point of our success and with this, we will continue to grow YOY," he concluded.