2013 Readers' Choice Awards — Best Smartphone Vendor

For months now, Samsung’s Galaxy S has been in a tight race with Apple’s iPhone for the title of world’s best-selling smartphone. Among our readers, though, it’s no contest: Samsung took the gold medal in this category over 2012 winner Apple by 68 votes. Though it received plenty of support as well, HTC Corp. dropped from second to third place in this year’s balloting.