Mobile phones started life as machines built for talking - but actually making calls is now one of their least popular functions.
Smartphone owners now spend just 12 minutes talking on their phones a day - but spend two hours using the gizmos.
Texting - formerly one of the reasons people became addicted to phones - is now less popular, with users spending just 10 minutes sending messages.
In terms of time spent, British users spend more time surfing the internet, checking social networking sites, playing games and listening to music.
The study of 2,000 smart phone users marking the launch of the Samsung found we spend almost 25 minutes a day surfing the internet.
Mobile phone users also spend a further 17 minutes checking and updating social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
In comparison, just 12 minutes is spent actually talking to someone on a phone call, while sending text messages accounts for only ten minutes of use a day.
David Johnson, General Manager Devices for O2 in the UK, which commissioned the research, said: ‘Smartphones are now being used like a digital ‘Swiss Army Knife’, replacing possessions like watches, cameras, books and even laptops.‘While we’re seeing no let-up in the number of calls customers make or the amount of time they spend speaking on their phones, their phone now plays a far greater role in all aspects of their lives.IF PEOPLE AREN'T MAKING CALLS, WHAT ARE THEY DOING ON THEIR PHONES? HOW WE SPEND OUR TIME
1.Browsing the internet
24.49 minutes
2. Checking social networking sites
17.29 minutes
3. Playing games
14.26 minutes
4. Listening to music
15.38 minutes
5. Making calls
12.08 minutes
6. Emails 11.06 minutes
7. Text messaging
10.12 minutes
8. Watching TV/films
9.23 minutes
9. Reading books
9.18 minutes
10.Taking photographs
3.25 minutes
‘Smart technology has improved in dramatically with the camera, diary, email and social media hardware and apps where design attention has been lavished.
‘Now that it’s so easy to use, there’s no surprise that consumers are switching to phones for these functions.’
Researchers also found for many the smartphone is replacing other possessions including alarm clocks, watches, cameras, diaries and even laptops and TVs as they become more intuitive and easier to use for things ‘beyond calls’.
More than half - 54% - now use their phones in place of an alarm clock, while 46 per cent have dispensed with a watch in favour of their smart phone.
39% per cent have switched to use their phone instead of a separate camera and more than a quarter even use their phone in place of a laptop.
One in ten have even replaced their games console with their phone, while six per cent use it as a TV.
Another six per cent have stopped reading books in favour of viewing the text on their phones.
What do you use yours for?
What do you use yours for?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: What do you use yours for?
I don't read much on my iPhone because I prefer the kindle e-ink to a backlit display.
I use my iPhone to access interwebs, including this board and a few others where I read/post.
I pay bills online using iPhone.
I check email on iPhone.
It's my personal calendar and I make grocery and task lists on it.
I watch loads of Netflix & Hulu movies & television on it.
During the day at my office, I use it to stream Pandora for background music (our desktop computers have all that stuff blocked, so I'm particularly happy for having it for that).
On long car trips in Montana where radio signal sucks, I use it to listen to NPR or audio books or my iTunes.
On rare occasion I use it to text or call someone, too.
I'd have to say the damn thing has become indispensible. I'm incorporating some new limitations, as I've recognized I use it too much. Sundays I'm planning to make into offline days, starting with tomorrow.
I use my iPhone to access interwebs, including this board and a few others where I read/post.
I pay bills online using iPhone.
I check email on iPhone.
It's my personal calendar and I make grocery and task lists on it.
I watch loads of Netflix & Hulu movies & television on it.
During the day at my office, I use it to stream Pandora for background music (our desktop computers have all that stuff blocked, so I'm particularly happy for having it for that).
On long car trips in Montana where radio signal sucks, I use it to listen to NPR or audio books or my iTunes.
On rare occasion I use it to text or call someone, too.
I'd have to say the damn thing has become indispensible. I'm incorporating some new limitations, as I've recognized I use it too much. Sundays I'm planning to make into offline days, starting with tomorrow.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
Re: What do you use yours for?
I just want one so I can find out what I use it for!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: What do you use yours for?
phone and bathroom suduku
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
Re: What do you use yours for?
Communicating/staying in touch with my clients and colleagues (via work email or phone) when I'm not in the office. Depending on my schedule, I can be with clients, in court, in bargaining, and on the road to and from, for some portion of almost every day of the week. Plus every contact for every person, and my calendar(both professional and personal). I also use the texting for my personal communication, and check my personal emails as well, and I make most of my personal calls from the car (via my in-car bluetooth) when I'm out and about, or during travel time.
And yes, I play a game or two (although most of them are on my phone for the boys), surf on occasion, or Facebook. But that's far less than half my phone time -- probably closer to 25%.
Without my phone I'd be cut off from everyone I need to be in touch with, no idea how to reach them, or where I need to be when. In short, its essential to my existence!
And yes, I play a game or two (although most of them are on my phone for the boys), surf on occasion, or Facebook. But that's far less than half my phone time -- probably closer to 25%.
Without my phone I'd be cut off from everyone I need to be in touch with, no idea how to reach them, or where I need to be when. In short, its essential to my existence!
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
Re: What do you use yours for?
I work on the road...I use my phone for email, texting, GPS, and radio.
Treat Gaza like Carthage.
Re: What do you use yours for?
Angry birds. 
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
Re: What do you use yours for?
I have an iPod touch. It has all that an iPhone has without the phone.
When I want to make a phone call I use a phone.
When I want to make a phone call I use a phone.
Re: What do you use yours for?
Ooh, thanks for the reminder Joe, time to get the latest "Archers" podcast!!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: What do you use yours for?
Even if I could afford one, I don't think I'd like one. From what I've tried of them, I don't like touch screens.
I have a flip-phone, that I can text, check email, and call from - that's good enough
I have a flip-phone, that I can text, check email, and call from - that's good enough
Re: What do you use yours for?
Uh oh.....loCAtek wrote:Even if I could afford one, I don't think I'd like one. From what I've tried of them, I don't like touch screens.
I have a flip-phone, that I can text, check email, and call from - that's good enough
You're showing symptoms of one of the first stages of old fogey-ness.
Next thing you know you'll be you will be saying things like, "I remember when a quarter would buy a burrito!"
Re: What do you use yours for?
I use mine primarily to annoy people like Joe Guy...
If I'm in a public place and I see someone nearby who looks like they'd be annoyed by someone talking on their cell phone, I pull mine out and start talking on it even if there's no one on the other end.....
If I'm in a public place and I see someone nearby who looks like they'd be annoyed by someone talking on their cell phone, I pull mine out and start talking on it even if there's no one on the other end.....
Re: What do you use yours for?
Have you ever heard of a cell phone jammer?Lord Jim wrote:I use mine primarily to annoy people like Joe Guy...
If I'm in a public place and I see someone nearby who looks like they'd be annoyed by someone talking on their cell phone, I pull mine out and start talking on it even if there's no one on the other end.....
I have one.
If you start talking on your phone where I am at a public place, I'll know there's no one on the other end of your cell phone conversation...
I know what you're thinking.
You're going to call quad and tell him I'm an outlaw.
Re: What do you use yours for?
The FCC would like to know your address, Joe.
I'll ask quaddie.
I'll ask quaddie.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: What do you use yours for?
I've heard of those cell-phone jammers; in my country, we call them 'bricks'.
