For US smartphone users, talking is old hat.
A new survey shows Americans spend an average of nearly two hours a day -- 114 minutes -- on their smartphones, including just 23 minutes talking.
Phone calls were the largest single activity for smartphone users, they also spend an average 20 minutes texting, 18 minutes on email, 16 minutes visiting websites and 11 minutes on social networks.
“The degree to which consumers use their smartphones primarily as data information hubs, mostly forgoing devices’ traditional purpose, is significant,” said Shawn DuBravac, chief economist at the Consumer Electronics Association, which commissioned the survey.
“Smartphones have become the viewfinder of our digital life. How smartphone utilization evolves has incredible implications moving forward.”
The survey found 66 per cent of online US consumers indicated they own a smartphone as of August this year, and nearly half (45 per cent) of all consumers planned to purchase one within the next 12 months.