Gearfuse

According to the twice yearly CTIA survey about text messages and mobile usage, America sends an average of 4.1 billion, yes BILLION, text messages a day. Our grand total for the half-year so far is 740 BILLION text messages. What are we? A bunch of 12-year-old girls? How many of these conversations do you think took place with users right next to each other? Here are a few more stats that might rock yo’ boat:

• Some 1.1 trillion minutes were used in the first half of the year (or 6.9 million minutes per day)

• There’s 246 million mobile data capable devices out there. You know, phones, 3G cards for your laptop, etc.

• Carriers made $19.4 billion in gross revenue from data plans in the first half of the year. Again, that’s gross revenue, so you’d have to take into account how much it costs to keep everything working, salaries, etc.

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UK phone retailer Right Mobile Phone conducted an interesting survey among their customers and got some intriguing results. According to their survey:

• 71% say using their favorite song as their alarm clock, versus the system default or no alarm clock at all, made them feel happier that day
• 80% say not receiving a reply to their text messages makes them feel “negative”, whatever that means
• 41% said going by one day without getting a text message made them feel unpopular or lonely
• Less than one in 10 people, 9% to be exact, actually laughed at a text message despite 61% of people using “LOL” in a text message
• None of the people surveyed have ever rolled over the floor laughing, otherwise known as ROLFing, or laughed their asses off, otherwise known as LMAO or in my case LMFAO
• 82% of people love to hear from their partners or people they deeply care about on a daily basis
• 18% of people don’t pick up when their parents call
• 78% of people tell someone that they love them using a mobile phone on a daily basis
• Less than 7% of people said they could go one whole day without using their mobile phone
• On average, people have 95 people in their address book
• 69% of people call or text less than 8 people a week
• 18% of people have pretended to receive a call or text messages

Now, what can we distinguish from this survey? We’re all a bunch of fucking liars and sneaks.

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Customers who are leaving Verizon Wireless are being asked to conduct an exit survey so VZW can find out why they left. The standard questions apply but one of the answers is raising some eyebrows. Can you guess? I’ll give you a hint: it rhymes with iClone.

Yes, Verizon Wireless is gauging how badly the iPhone is hurting its subscriber base. It’s simply dying to know if it could have kept you around if VZW offered the iPhone. Chances are, a lot of people with cellphones are catching on to how popular that silly iPhone 3G is and want one – badly. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if Apple and VZW are going to play ball one day.

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Microsoft has exhibited the great American trait of racism with its latest consumer survey which claims that Hispanic people are “more concerned than the general population” with home entertainment products this holiday season. Clearly differentiating between Hispanics and the general population, Microsoft’s latest survey’s numbers claim that 89 percent of Hispanics versus 64 percent of the general population want a holiday gift that “brings their family together.”

In Microsoft’s eyes, you’re either Hispanic or everything else. I don’t know what’s worse, Microsoft’s racial profiling or the fact that I used Viva Piñata as the picture for this post.

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