The Mobile Phone – Where Do You Use Yours?
Comments(0) Ever wondered how entrenched the mobile phone is in our society, and where people use their mobile phone? It has become an essential part of a real estate agents operating tools and most would feel naked without theirs hanging on their belt or in a handbag. A new survey released has looked at the usage of mobile phones in Australia and the results are very interesting. For instance, in what strange places do you use your mobile phone? the survey found that 1 in every 2 Australians uses a mobile phone on the toilet, that computes to 48% of the population, small when compared to 66% of Chinese people who say they take it into the toilet with them,well it is a good place to do your business, I suppose.
If you live in Melbourne, your partner is more likely to go through your text and phone messages than those living in Sydney. The survey commissioned by Microsoft and was conducted across Australia, China, Taiwan, India and Japan. The full story can be read here http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1222736
Looking at this in a little more depth, the future development of the internet as predicted in my post The Future of the Internet – 2020 and Beyond is the prediction that a mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people, and with new real estate applications becoming available for both the IPhone and smart phone platforms, it is not hard to believe that this will be an integral part of how consumers will access on line information including real estate in the future and will shape how we do business in 2020.
One of the very interesting results is that 13% of Australians said they would use their phone during extremely intimate moments. Now that one I’m not going to touch!! Na, I can’t resist, maybe they just put it on Vibrate!
