February 3, 2011 84 Comments

How We Use Our Phones

Here’s a crazy infographic on cell phone usage. If you can’t see it, click here.

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http://raulcolon.net Raul Colon

What a simple way to convey so much information and make it engaging! Excellent!
Anonymous

Thanks Chris…great info! I didn’t see the percentage of use for actually talking on the phone. I wonder if teens talk on the phone anymore?
http://markharai.com Mark Harai

Some great info here Chris, thanks : )
Kradr2

That is funny Chris, the other day I was thinking about how sound pertains to language and how we might use the fundamentals of music (see Wynton Marsalis on music Utube ) as a model for language …….. Is rap music to opera .. as texting is to talking????? …. Also factor in, the rise in Autism and Asperger, is technology having an impact on our minds and perceptions?… I wonder what Marshall McLuhna would say?
Lynnblue

Chris thanks as always for a great post. I’m writing a YA and this just proves more of my dialogue can be texted!
http://www.drewgriffin.co drewmgriffin

Crazy Stuff Chris. I suppose Mobile isn’t a Fad. 200 Trillion Text Messages per day is an amazing number. I’d really enjoy how you would translate this in terms of Human Business, other than the obvious behavior. Shift in how we communicate or just a new method?
Suo

200 TRILLION texts a day? Doubtful.

200 trillion / 308 million people (2010 population of U.S.) = 650 thousand text messages received per person per day.

Jackk911

In 2010 Americans spent way more than $42 million on mobile devices, and Apple is not responsible for 99% of all downloads. The errors in this presentation are presented in a pretty way, however.

http://martani.net martani_net

These numbers are correct???

200 TRILLION texts a day?? come on!
Mark Dwight

Glad I’m not in the watch business.
http://www.coryscomments.com Cory Hintz

I agree with Mark Harai, very good information. I was impressed to see that so many teens felt they could text blindfolded. I am not sure why that question would be asked in the first place.
http://www.theinfopreneur.net/ TheInfoPreneur

Wow Chris,
thanks for sharing….I for one had no idea how prevalent the app and text markets were still growing. Especially text…that’s a surprising stat about more in one day versus all year of emails. Crazy.

Brandon
Sylvia Bernstein

I’m a little dubious of the 200 trillion texts in America every day. That would mean that every adult, child and newborn in the U.S. (approx. 300 million) would need to send out 670,000 texts per day. Even if we include Canada, Mexico and South America this still doesn’t make sense, especially if teens send out an average of 3339 per MONTH…
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Anonymous

So, this may be another case of, I’m doing it wrong. I’ve been concentrating on creating content for traditional media that was created long before any of us were alive, and it seems that new media is the way to go…. I’d let this depress me if I didn’t have a positive outlook on life ;)
Anonymous

So, this may be another case of, I’m doing it wrong. I’ve been concentrating on creating content for traditional media that was created long before any of us were alive, and it seems that new media is the way to go…. I’d let this depress me if I didn’t have a positive outlook on life ;)
Anonymous

So, this may be another case of, I’m doing it wrong. I’ve been concentrating on creating content for traditional media that was created long before any of us were alive, and it seems that new media is the way to go…. I’d let this depress me if I didn’t have a positive outlook on life ;)
Anonymous

So, this may be another case of, I’m doing it wrong. I’ve been concentrating on creating content for traditional media that was created long before any of us were alive, and it seems that new media is the way to go…. I’d let this depress me if I didn’t have a positive outlook on life ;)
http://twitter.com/charityestrella Estrella Rosenberg

What a pretty infographic :)

In regards to the 200 trillion texts statistic, keep in mind that not all of those are sent and/or received by humans.

For example, weather updates post as texts to websites and labs from tens of thousands of weather stations all over the world, websites bounce and rebroadcast small data sets by text message, and entire statistical sets from relay stations, measuring devices, geological instrumentation, hourly sales figures from POS systems in retail chain stores are relayed by text, etc.

Suo

Fine, but 200 trillion a day is still a ridiculous number.
It equates to 650,000 per person per day
27,000 per hour
451 per minute
8 per second.

I highly doubt the average American is receiving 8 text messages every second of every hour of every day. Everyone’s phone would run out of memory within a couple of minutes and people would be spending their entire day deleting messages to free up memory, leaving no time to send text messages!

http://twitter.com/charityestrella Estrella Rosenberg

You missed the point. Most of those aren’t being received by phones – sms technology is used to send all sorts of data as “texts” but not necessarily to humans with mobile phones.
http://twitter.com/charityestrella Estrella Rosenberg

You missed the point. Most of those aren’t being received by phones – sms technology is used to send all sorts of data as “texts” but not necessarily to humans with mobile phones.
http://twitter.com/charityestrella Estrella Rosenberg

You missed the point. Most of those aren’t being received by phones – sms technology is used to send all sorts of data as “texts” but not necessarily to humans with mobile phones.

John Doyle

I once heard a wise man say that 83% of stats are made up right on the spot ;-)

Thanks for sharing Chris!
Dara Bell

Blackberries I noticed in the UK were down to £20 a month which is a about two hours wages for the Digerati here. You can buy Sim cards for a few pounds. These have have access to Facebook and Twitter. Events are conspiring for advertisers. I like Charity Estrellas comments. Nice Packaging!

Why is Droid so popular in the U.S?

Dara

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http://www.onlinebitsandpieces.com Frenchy

“Why is Droid so popular in the U.S?”

It must be because of Google. Just guessing.

This is a great infographics. Quite surprised that Blackberry is also reigning there just like in our country.

Dara Bell

Blackberries I noticed in the UK were down to £20 a month which is a about two hours wages for the Digerati here. You can buy Sim cards for a few pounds. These have have access to Facebook and Twitter. Events are conspiring for advertisers. I like Charity Estrellas comments. Nice Packaging!

Why is Droid so popular in the U.S?

Dara

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http://twitter.com/amfunderburk1 Ashley Funderburk

Love this infographic! I think it depicts American cell phone usage very well.
Sandisolow

No mention of email here!
Dara Bell

Sandisolow makes a good point. I have found it hard to answer email on my phone. I also personally hate the Blackberry email without a proper email signature below them. Business going down hill I feel!

Dara
http://twitter.com/VYFCT VirtuallyYoursFromCT

LOL – I think my teenage daughter has those texting numbers beat! :o) Thanks for the fun graphic Chris!
http://twitter.com/JeffKryger Jeff Kryger

Yeah I would tend to agree with some of the others that I don’t think the stats are close to right (the amount of texts, Apple’s dominance in the app market). But I would say that texting and apps certainly are the future.
http://www.danielroachblog.com Daniel Roach

Having worked in the cell phone industry, I buy most of these stats. I just find it hard to believe that social networking in only listed as used by 23% of users. I would bet that a majority of Twitter users, if not Facebook as well, access through their phones at some point and that has to be more than 23% of users.
http://www.danielroachblog.com Daniel Roach

Having worked in the cell phone industry, I buy most of these stats. I just find it hard to believe that social networking in only listed as used by 23% of users. I would bet that a majority of Twitter users, if not Facebook as well, access through their phones at some point and that has to be more than 23% of users.
http://www.lookwhatmomfound.com Rob Babiak

I use my Blackberry mainly for email, text and twitter but I agree with the teens stats for sure. My 15 year old sends 3k-4k texts a month. Good thing for unlimited texts. I can remember the days when we hardly ever texted and paid for each text. Times have changed for sure!
Yarabek

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http://www.nburmandesign.com/ Media Designer

This proves that mobile users use mobile devices for mobile purposes instead of replacing a desktop or laptop.
Great infographic!
http://www.teplansky.com/teplanskycommunications/ Rob Teplansky

I think the 32 texts that adults are sending are to their teens….
http://www.teplansky.com/teplanskycommunications/ Rob Teplansky

I think the 32 texts that adults are sending are to their teens….
http://www.secondsnack.com Thomas

Infographics enhance my life. Seriously.

This is a good one. Amazing to me that the app store downloads still completely dominate the app market. Its really telling when you compare the pie graph of apple’s share of the market, to the 99% of app downloads it commands.
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https://www.demicast.wordpress.com/ Chad Bronze

Wow this is pretty awesome :P I had no idea people spend so much time on their phones ahaha
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I knew cell phone usage was extreme, but this gives great insight. I wonder how this compares to television viewing. I have to check that out.
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I knew cell phone usage was extreme, but this gives great insight. I wonder how this compares to television viewing. I have to check that out.
Josh D.

Kind of misleading pie chart, considering Android runs on Linux.
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http://www.simplyzesty.com Niall Harbison

I’m not doubting it but 200 Trillion per day seems like a lot? Isn’t there like 300 million people in the USA so that would make it about 80 SMS per person no? My maths must be off!!
http://www.benjermcveigh.com/ Benjer McVeigh

Wow…crazy stats!

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