iPhone Users Got Stats On Multipurpose Dependence

Posted on May 6, 2008
Filed Under iPhone General

Today I read an interesting report regarding iPhone use. Recent market research from iSuppli Corporation revealed that many people use iPhones in various ways that differ from other phones, I mean the categories that until recently were not important to most users.

We still text message as often as owners of other phones, we often check e-mail, surf the Web, watch YouTube clips or other video, or viewphotos.

iSuppli’s statistics reports that iPhone users spent less than half the time making calls (46.5%) compared to 71.7% of other phone users’ calls. And that model shows that Apple has succeeded in producing a product for multiple purposes.

Actually, similar to the report findings, I use my iPhone for making calls about half the time. The other half I browse the Web, check e-mail, play games and add unofficial apps. And I found that I use it a great deal of my personal and work time, more often than any other portable device I’ve owned. Now it’s time to admit our iPhone dependence.

Let me illustrate a typical day of iPhone user:

iPhone alarm wakes you up each morning, brings up the weather widget, provides information to plan wardrobe and departure time, remembers the last-used application before for immediate one touch access. Clicking on Home button gets E-mail and the Calendar options. User can even link iPhone to a car stereo, with mute option when a call comes in. And you can plan your routes with Google Maps. It’s always on cloud connectivity for services access and downloads.

Apple was the first to make successful flat touch panels for mainstream use. Only Apple has clever, intuitive, slick multifinger interaction with convenient interface.

Just in the next few months, faster and redesigned 3G iPhones will arrive, as well as the release of a software development kit for some of new applications. And it would be hard to resist this new invasion. Let’s hope that it would be the device we’ve always dreamed of.