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iPhone owners spend 55% more time on their phone than Android users

New smartphone usage data shows that iPhone owners spend an additional 26 minutes per day on Apple's handset more than the average Android device user.

While an Android smartphone owner spends an average of 49 minutes per day on their device, iPhone owners exceed that amount by 55 percent, according to usage data published by Experian this week. The average iPhone owner instead spends an hour and 15 minutes on their handset.

In addition to spending more time on their iPhone, Apple device owners also use their smartphone in very different ways from Android owners. For example, Android users are more likely to spend their time making phone calls, while iPhones lead in texting, email, taking pictures, and social networking.

Android users, meanwhile, devote a greater share of their smartphone usage time to browsing the Web. Talking and texting remain the most popular uses of both iPhones and Android handsets, though iPhone users are evenly split between percentage of time talking and texting.

The data comes from Experian Marketing Services' Simmons Connect mobile and digital panel, which includes opt-in panelists who have responded to the Simmons National Consumer Study and National Hispanic Consumer Study.



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ged 17 Years · 9 comments

great reason to not buy one, if you ask me.

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tallest skil 14 Years · 43086 comments

So this survey is ONLY of the Android users that actually use their devices, right? Because 90% of the devices in use are iOS devices (across the board), and since Android has shipped, what 60% of the market, that means there's no way they're spending less than 1 second using it on average across the board.

 

Originally Posted by ged 
great reason to not buy one, if you ask me.

 

Using the device is a great reason not to buy one. 

 

You idiots need to just shut up and go away. I mean, my STARS. Do you really expect us not to notice this stuff?

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mrrodriguez 12 Years · 215 comments

The percentages of difference are so small they seem insignificant.

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mrrodriguez 12 Years · 215 comments

[quote name="Tallest Skil" url="/t/157738/iphone-owners-spend-55-more-time-on-their-phone-than-android-users#post_2334802"]So this survey is ONLY of the Android users that actually use their devices, right? Because 90% of the devices in use are iOS devices (across the board), and since Android has shipped, what 60% of the market, that means there's no way they're spending less than 1 second using it on average across the board. Using the device is a great reason not to buy one. :no: :rolleyes: You idiots need to just shut up and go away. I mean, my STARS. Do you really expect us not to notice this stuff? [/quote] Damn dude, you're becoming that stressed out guy in the group that has a nervous breakdown and puts a knife to a woman's neck and says 'stay away, I'm gonna kill her'. It's just a forum. We're only talking about phones, we're not discussing scientific theories (those guys are brutal).

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tallest skil 14 Years · 43086 comments

Originally Posted by mrrodriguez 
It's just a forum. We're only talking about phones, we're not discussing scientific theories (those guys are brutal).

 

Were you not trying to refute what I've said?