Smartphone Essentials magazine has unveiled the winners of its awards for 2009, and has named the HTC Hero as Smartphone of the Year. The awards, sponsored by leading online retailer eXpansys, showcase the best smartphone and satnav products of the last twelve months, as picked by journalists, industry experts and readers of Smartphone Essentials and smartphonedaily.co.uk.

The full list of winners is:

Smartphone of the Year – HTC Hero
Best Consumer Smartphone – HTC Hero
Best Business Smartphone – BlackBerry Curve 8900
Best Value Smartphone – Nokia 5800
Best Satnav device – TomTom XL LIVE
Best Satnav software – ALK CoPilot Live 8
Best Accessory – Optoma Pico Pocket Projector
eXpansys Customer Award: Best Smartphone – Apple iPhone 3GS
eXpansys Customer Award: Best GPS – TomTom GO 940 LIVE
Smartphone Essentials Readers’ Award: Best Smartphone – HTC Touch Pro2
Smartphone Essentials Readers’ Award: Best GPS – Garmin 1390t
Smartphone Essentials Readers’ Award: Best Network – T-Mobile

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