As this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) reaches its final hours, GSMA has announced the winners of the 18 Annual Global Mobile awards at the mega trade show, where Samsung Galaxy S3 won the "smartphone of the year" award, beating Apple's iPhone.

The award ceremony was hosted by writer, actor and comedian David Walliams, who was joined on stage by sponsor representatives from McAfee, Myriad and Telmap. Co-presenters of the award CNBC, Time, and Fortune also made an appearance on stage along with GSMA CEO John Hoffman and the judging panel.

Samsung topped the list of winners with five awards, including the Best Smartphone and Device Manufacturer of the Year awards. Recognizing various governments around the globe for their innovation and leadership in the use of mobile technology in the public sector, GSMA announced the Government Leadership Awards with the Government of New Zealand bagging the Spectrum for Mobile Broadband award and Government of Moldova winning the m-Government Award.

Here are the winners of the 2013 Global Mobile Awards as announced by GSMA:

 - Best Smartphone

Samsung Galaxy S3

 - Device Manufacturer of the Year

Samsung

 - Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology - The CTO's choice

 Samsung Electronics for Smart LTE Networks

 - Best Mobile Infrastructure

Samsung Electronics for Smart LTE Networks

 - Best Mobile Enabled Consumer Electronics Device

Samsung Electronics for Samsung GALAXY Camera

 - Best Feature phone or entry level phone

Nokia Asha 305

 - Best Mobile Tablet

Google and Asus for Nexus 7

- Best Mobile App for Consumers

Facebook

 - Mobile for Development Award

U.S. Agency for International Development

- Best Mobile Health Product or Service

MIPsoft for BlindSquare

 - Best Mobile Education or Learning Product or Service

Mobilink for SMS Based Literacy program

 - Best Mobile Product or Service for Automotive

BMW i, MINI, Sixt and Vodafone Group for DriveNow Premium Car Sharing

 - Best NFC /Mobile Money Product or Service

Etisalat for Flous - The Etisalat Commerce Programme

 - Best Mobile Publishing Product or Service

Ver Se Innovation for NewsHunt

 - Best Mobile Innovation for 'Smart Cities'

Streetline for Parker

 - Best Enterprise Mobile Service

Mobilelron for Version 5 Complete Enterprise Persona

 - Best Consumer Mobile Service

Comviva for Mahindra Comviva's mobiquity MFS platform powering mTicketing service for Bangladesh Railways

 - Best Advertising or Marketing on Mobile

McCann Worldgroup (Hong Kong) for Chok! Chok! Chok!

 - Best Network Product or Solution for Serving Customers

NTT DOCOMO for Hanashite Hon'yaku, world's first automatic voice translation service

 - Best Product, Initiative or Service in Emerging Markets

Ericsson for Amazon Connection- a digital inclusion program in the Amazon

 - GSMA mWomen Best Mobile Product or Service for Women in Emerging Markets

Asiacell for Almas Line

 - Best Use of Mobile in Emergency or Humanitarian Situations

Vodafone Foundation for Vodafone Instant Network

 - The Green Mobile Award

Indus Towers for Green Sites Project

 - Best Mobile App for Enterprise

Evernote

 - Judges Choice - Best Overall Mobile App

Waze

 - Most Innovative Mobile App

McCann Worldgroup (Hong Kong) for Chok! Chok! Chok!

 - Smartphone Application Challenge

AT&T for Application Resource Optimizer (ARO)

- Best Application using Network APIs

Bharti Airtel Limited for my airtel app

 - Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough

Accuris Networks for AccuROAM Wi-Fi: Making Wi-Fi a carrier driven extension of GSM for Offload and Roaming

 - Best Cloud Based Technology for Mobile

Jasper Wireless cloud-based connected devices platform for machine-to-machine (M2M) and consumer electronics

 - Best Mobile Safeguard & Security Products and Services

AdaptiveMobile and Syniverse for Messaging Trust

 - Outstanding LTE Contribution

SK Telecom for 4G LTE with PETA Solution

 - Spectrum for Mobile Broadband Award

Government of New Zealand

 - m-Government Award

Government of Moldova

The full list of winners and finalists for the 2013 Global Mobile Awards can be found here. The shortlist for the 'Best New Mobile Handset, Device or Tablet at Mobile World Congress 2013 will be announced shortly and the winner will be honored in a live presentation on Feb. 28.