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Versatile Mobiles Eliminating Other Devices

Versatile Mobiles Eliminating Other Devices A report by the mobile comparison website www.rightmobilephone.co.uk has demonstrated how attitudes are changing with regard to mobile phone technology.

The study, which used information gathered from 1,054 mobile phone users showed that many people would use their phone’s extra capabilities to replace other devices, with around 50 per cent of participants regularly using their phone as an alarm.

Of those questioned, 68 per cent owned an MP3 player but over half said they would regularly use their mobile phone to play audio files. Of the 42 per cent of those surveyed that said they did not own a digital camera, 79 per cent stated the reason being that they instead used their mobile phone to take images.

91 per cent of the total number questioned revealed that they did not own a calculator, with 80 per cent of those giving the reason why as they used the calculator on their mobile phones.

Overall, participants also revealed that they would be more likely to use their mobile handset than their landline phone and to input important dates into their mobile phone than use a traditional calendar.

The co-founder of rightmobile.co.uk, Neil McHugh, told PRLog: “When we carried out a study last year to see if the mobile was replacing the alarm clock, we did speculate that handsets would also threaten other stand alone devices and it’s now clear from this study that people are starting to use their phones more and more in replacement for cameras, calendars, calculators and even their landline.”

Industry News posted by Marilyn on 19 March 2010

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