Using Phones, but Not to Talk or Surf [telecom]

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Using Phones, but Not to Talk or Surf

By ALEX MINDLIN March 6, 2011

The average smartphone owner spends 667 minutes a month using apps. That is more time spent with apps than spent talking on a smartphone or using it to browse the Web. But not all smartphones are equally friendly to apps.

Programmers have an easier time designing apps for iPhones and Android phones, giving these devices a much broader pool to draw from. Users of those devices fire up twice as many apps a month as BlackBerry users do, according to Zokem, a research firm. Zokem tracked the behavior of 2,100 British and American smartphone users in January using software installed on their phones.

The most popular app to download is the game Angry Birds. But only 5 percent of users played that game in the month that Zokem measured. That pattern is typical for a game, said Hannu Verkasalo, the chief executive of Zokem. "For many games, the usage is quite sporadic. People download a game, try it a few times, and then it falls away," he said.

- ALEX MINDLIN

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Monty Solomon
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I wonder what the counts are for domestic voice telephone traffic, such as local and toll plain voice calls--by landline and cellular.

I wonder if voice call traffic is down due to so many messages being done by text or email or internet.

For instance, if kids want to set up an outing, do they text each other to make the arrangements or make a voice call (either cellular or landline)? If a teen wants to ask another out on a date, it is done by texting or phone or email?

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Lisa or Jeff

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