MUMBAI: Awarding the best products and services in the mobile industry, the GSMA announced the winners of the 18th Annual Global Mobile awards, held at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Samsung Electronics emerged amongst the leaders by bagging five major trophies at the ceremony.

The Korean handset maker picked up awards for Samsung Galaxy Camera (Best Mobile Enabled Consumer Electronics Device), Galaxy S3 (Best Smartphone), Device Manufacturer of the Year, Samsung Electronics for Smart LTE Networks (Best Mobile Infrastructure) and Smart LTE Networks (Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology – The CTO’s choice).

GSMA CEO John Hoffman said, “Through these awards, we are proud to shine the light on mobile industry’s many innovators and leaders, from all corners of the world. This year’s new categories reflected the industry’s reach into many new sectors and we received more than 600 high-quality entries from across the mobile ecosystem. We would like to congratulate all Global Mobile Awards winners and thank the many hundreds of companies and organizations that support these awards by entering each year.”

In other major awards, Facebook won the Best Mobile App for Consumers, Nokia Asha 305 bagged the Best Feature phone or entry level phone trophy and Google and Asus picked up the Best Mobile Tablet award for Nexus 7.

The ceremony also announced the Government Leadership Awards, which recognizes governments from around the world for their innovation and leadership in use of mobile technologies in the public sector. The winners for the category were; Government of New Zealand (Spectrum for Mobile Broadband Award), US Agency for International Development (Mobile for Development Award) and Government of Moldova (m-Government Award).

The shortlist for the 'Best New Mobile Handset, Device or Tablet at Mobile World Congress 2013' will be announced today on Mobile World Live TV and the Global Mobile Awards website. The winner will be honoured in a live presentation on Mobile World Live TV on 28 February.

The winners were selected by over 170 independent analysts, journalists, academics and subject matter experts and 13 representatives from mobile operators throughout the world.

The ceremony was hosted by David Walliams. He was joined by representatives from sponsors McAfee, Myriad and Telmap, media partners CNBC, Fortune and Time, GSMA Ltd CEO John Hoffman and members of the judging panel.