iPhone Addiction

Most common task habits with a mobile phone:

•        Checking time

•        Checking for messages

•        Checking battery life

•        Listening to voicemail

•        Listening to music or media

•        Watching video

•        Reading/Writing text messages

•        Reading/Writing SMS

•        Reading/Writing email

•        Finding an address

•        Mapping an address

•        Accessing social network

•        Getting step by step directions

•        Getting contact information

•        Managing contacts

•        Buying something

•        Sharing something

•        Browse the internet

•        Taking photo or video

Tactile or haptic habits:

•        Touching the phone with hand or between fingers

•        Holding the phone with hand or between fingers

•        Looking at the phone

•        Poking the phone with finger or thumb

•        Pinching the phone with finger and thumb

•        Pressing the phone with finger or thumb

•        Sliding finger over the phone

•        Typing with thumb or thumbs

•        Turning on the phone

•        Turning off the phone

•        Plugging in the charger

•        Put in / Take out of pocket or container

 

Teen Mobile Phone Activity

Recent Pew Research Center study on teen phone usage:

•        75% of teens ages 12 to 17 own cellphones

•        Email is the least popular communication 11% use daily

•        Instant messaging 24% use daily

•        Calling someone 38% use daily

•        50% send 50 or more texts per day

•        33%+ of teens send more than 100 messages a day

•        15% send more than 200 texts each day