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From an article in The Telegraph:

While smartphones are replacing more of our gadgets, such as alarm clocks and digital cameras, actually using one to make a phone call is not that common, according to mobile network O2.

The average smartphone owner spends more than two hours each day using the device. During that time, smartphone owners spend an average of 25 minutes using their phone to browse the web, 17 minutes on social networking, 13 minutes playing games and 16 minutes listening to music.

Making phone calls with the smartphone was only the fifth most popular use for the gadget, only slightly more time than they spend writing and checking email (11 minutes) and text messaging (10 minutes).

More, including a graphic, in the article.  According to the graphic books account for 9 minutes of the day.

PS: I had one of those bag phones.  It was quite the eyecatcher back in the day.

1 COMMENT

  1. One really has to wonder about the standards of reporting in technology and science, especially in the Telegraph.

    This usage information has been in existence ever since the first mobiles could go online and is far far far from newsworthy.

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