ArnoldRimmer said:
selnor said:
Today, the stunning new smartphone was awarded the Editor’s Choice at the What Mobile Awards 2011 at London’s Whisky Mist.
The decision was reached after thousands of readers voted for their favourite new phones, apps and networks during October on the magazine’s website.
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This is just blatantly misleading.
While not actually saying so, the second sentence (with bold letters) for example clearly suggests that this award was based on a voting from "thousands of readers".
In practice however it was quite the contrary - it seems that out the the 18 awards that "What Mobile" announced, THIS was the only award that NOT the readers voted upon.
The real, main award that the readers voted upon is not the "Mobile Phone of the year" award, which went to the Android Smartphone Samsung Galaxy S2. The Nokia Lumia 800 that won this dubious "Editor's Choice Award" was not even available when the readers voted - in fact, it was released only ONE day before this award was announced, so one can seriously wonder how the editors were even able to judge absolutely all aspects (durability, battery life etc.) of a phone that was released only one day before, and when even their first review of the phone appeared about 10 days later.
And what does "Editor's choice award" even mean but "an extremely small group of individuals, namely one or more editors of a magazine, declared this particular phone to be the best of the year, for whatever reason"? There is no factual information behind this award whatsoever, not even any hint of popularity.
And the thread title is simply wrong, as neither of the provided sources claim something like this. As mentioned before, "What Mobile" does indeed announce a "Mobile Phone of the year" award, but that went to an Android phone. The second source on the other hand lists not only one, but 4 "best smartphones of 2011": one WP7 phone, one iPhone and two Android devices - so that source doesn't justify the thread title as well.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the Nokia Lumia 800 (or Windows Phone 7 in general) isn't great - I really cannot judge at all, so far I have never even seen any WP7 phone in reality that I could get my hands on. All I want to point out is how pointless it is to give any meaning to this particular award, and how the information is presented in a seemingly consciously misleading way.
In a way, this thread feels more like some people are so desperately trying to convince themselves how great WP7 is that they are already starting to fool themselves by applauding almost irrelevant awards.
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