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Monday, April 14, 2008
iPhone: It also makes calls. Really
If Apple Inc.’s iPhone represents the future of mobile phones, we all might be talking less when we’re out and about.
According to a report from tech market researcher iSuppli Corp., iPhone owners use their phones more for surfing the Web, listening to music or doing other stuff than for actually making voice calls.
About 72 percent of the time that most mobile phone users pick up their phone, it’s to make voice calls, according to iSuppli’s ConsumerTrak survey of U.S. residents. In contrast, iPhone owners spend just over 46 percent of their time making voice calls.
Users of iPhones said they spend about 12 percent of their usage time accessing the Internet, compared with just 2 percent for all mobile phones on average. Furthermore, iPhone owners spent 12 percent of their usage time listening to music or other audio, compared to just 2.5 percent for all mobile handset users.
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