GSMA announces 2008 award nominations

The GSMA has announced nominations for its 13th annual Global Mobile Awards.

The 2008 nominees include:

Best Mobile Game:

Call of the Pharaoh (Cellufun)
Burnout (EA Mobile)
Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? (Fox Entertainment)
My Hangman (Glu Mobile)
My Dog 2 (I-play)

Best Mobile Music Service:

AT&T Mobile Music (AT&T Mobility)
Airtel Live Music on Demand (Bharti Airtel)
MusicStation (Ominifone)
MOOV on mobile (PCCW Mobile HK)
Shazam iD (Shazam Entertainment)

Best Mobile Video Service:

MTV Shorts (MTVN International)
mywaves (mywaves)
Afterworld (Sony Pictures Television International)
Mobile FOXTEL and BigPond TV on mobile (Telstra Corporation)
Bundesliga Live! (Vodafone D2)

Best Mobile Social Networking Service:

myGamma.com (BuzzCity)
DChoc Cafî Games (Digital Chocolate)
Radar (Tiny Pictures Inc)
Turkcell-im Benim (Turkcell)
Vringo (Vringo)

Best Mobile Infotainment Portal for News/entertainment:

My Media Net (AT&T Mobility)
WAP portal (MTS: Kids)
Mobile Infotainment Portal (PCCW Mobile HK)
Webwag Mobile (Webwag)
Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2 (Yahoo! Connected Life)

The GSMA is the global trade association representing 700 GSM mobile phone operators across 215 countries worldwide.

The 2008 awards will be presented on February 12 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.