Apple pips rivals in Digital Spy readers' awards 2011

Apple has scored a massive victory in the Digital Spy end of year readers' awards, taking home best technology brand and two honours for the iPhone 4S.

After we polled our 12 million monthly readers, Apple romped home as the best tech brand, taking 62% of the vote, way ahead of the second-placed Google at 10%.



Apple's iPhone 4S, which sold more than 4m units worldwide after it was released in October, was named the best mobile by our readers, taking 56% of the vote.

The BlackBerry Curve 9350 Series lagged far behind in second place at 12%, while there was no place in the top five for the new Nokia Lumia 800, Nokia's first smartphone running the Windows Phone operating system.

The iPhone 4S was also named the best overall tech product of this year. Amazingly, only one non-Apple product made it onto the list of best tech products, Amazon's Kindle e-reader.

Best Tech Brand

1. Apple (62%)
2. Google (10%)
3. Samsung (8%)
4. HTC (6%)
5. Microsoft (6%)
6. Sony (5%)

Best Mobile

1. Apple iPhone 4s (56%)
2. BlackBerry Curve 9350 Series (12%)
3. Samsung Galaxy Si (10%)
4. HTC Evo 3D (5%)
5. Samsung Galaxy Nexus (4%)

Best Tech Product

1. iPhone 4s
2. iPads
3. iPods
4. Kindle
5. Macbook Pro

Elsewhere in the poll, Rovio's thunderously successful mobile game Angry Birds was named the best app, ahead of social networks Facebook and Twitter.

Catch-up TV service BBC iPlayer, which launched on iPhone and iPad this year, came in third, and messaging platform WhatsApp completed the list.

Best App

1. Angry Birds
2. Facebook
3. Twitter
4. iPlayer
5. WhatsApp