Another strong recommendation for the 3 Skypephone! This one comes from Christian Lindholm, a man referred to as “The Godfather of Mobile Users” by the Finnish popular press.

This achievement is no mean feat with the arrival of significant devices, some of which are noted by Christian, particularly the iPhone, N95 8GB and fleetingly, the seemingly forgotten Prada phone. The iPhone and updated N95 are both worthy of Phone Of The Year in Christian’s opinion, but both are edged-out just, by the 3 Skypephone. His reasoning comes down very much to price and the benefit to the consumer, a point he illustrates: “If you want a great package and want to have GBP 450 for something else, it is a phone one should look at very seriously.”

Christian has always been a fan of the “black horse” of the mobile market and six weeks into using his device admits that any novelty is yet to wear off. And therefore, he bestows his award upon the 3 Skypephone, “I cannot do anything other than award the phone my phone the year award. Congrats Skype, 3, Qualcomm, iSkoot and the Amoi folks in China.”

What a start to what is sure to be another year of much moving and shaking within the mobile marketplace…