subject: Interesting Fact Smartphones Are Rarely Used For Calling [print this page] Whereas the Smartphones are substituting most of gadgets like digital cameras and alarm clocks, use of Smartphone to make a call is decreasing, as per the Mobile Network O2. Just go through these data:
Use Time spent on it by User
Internet 24 min & 49 sec
Social Media17 min & 29 sec
Music 15 min & 38 sec
Games14 min & 26 sec
Phone calls12 min & 06 sec
Email 11 min & 06 sec
Texting 10 min & 12 sec
TV/film 09 min & 23 sec
Books09 min & 22 sec
Camera03 min & 28 sec
Because of offshore mobile application development, people are spending more time on surfing web, playing games, or checking the social networks than doing phone calls. An average Smartphone user spends over two hours every day using Smartphone with outsource mobile applications. Throughout this time, the Smartphone owners use 25 minutes on an average using the Smartphone for browsing web, 17 minutes for social networking, 13 minutes for playing games & 16 minutes to listen music. Doing phone calls through Smartphone is at 5th position in most popular uses of gadget, with a bit more time than email checking as well as text messaging. Whereas the survey discovered that people use up merely three minutes per day to take photographs. Photography is most accepted thing for using the Smartphone. 74 % people say that that they take photos through their handset.
Because of offshore mobile application development, Smartphones are being utilized like digital Swiss Knife with replacement of cameras, watches, laptops, and even books to outsource mobile applications. This is opinion of David Johnson, who is GM of the devices for the O2 in UK. According to him, whereas we have not any let-ups in the calls customers are making or the time they are spending for speaking on the phones. Outsource mobile applications are now playing a far bigger role with all the aspects in their lives. Over 50 % of the respondents said that they utilize their Smartphone rather than alarm clock, whereas nearly 46 % people have said that they dont need a watch because of their phone. This fashion of offshore mobile application development is more sophisticated in US, where the people are making lesser calls from mobile phone each year since the year 2007. Average duration of the call is halved ever since year 2005, to about 90 seconds.
