Despite the proliferation of smartphones and other wireless devices that can do it all--telephone, e-mail, web browser, camera, text messaging, streaming video, downloading of music, and so on--it seems that many of us have more than one device to perform one or more of these applications.
A new study from In-Stat says that over 15 percent of people have two cellphones, and that 80 percent of survey respondents that have a phone with a camera in it also have a digital camera.
Other findings of the study include:
- 75 percent of smartphone users also carry a PDA
- Over 50 percent of smartphone users also have an MP3 player
It makes sense. Many of the newfangled smartphones are a bit on the pricey side, and people who have invested money into purchasing a cellphone, a digital camera, an MP3 player, etc., may be reluctant at first to ditch all of these gadgets for a brand new one. However, as these smartphones continue to come down in price, consumers will make the leap to them.
1. Frankly I hate the redundancy. Even if my phone has a camera, I still opt to use my digicam. One thing's for sure, I didn't get the phone for the built-in camera. I can be pretty raditional when it comes to my gadgets. I still use my phone for to make calls...that's what it's meant for anyway.
Posted at 2:32AM on Nov 20th 2006 by Robert Barrington