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18-34 year old Americans love their Cell Phones
According to a recent survey among 18-34 year old Americans, by ReCellular, a reseller and recycler of used cell phones,

Americans can’t live without their cell phones.

Here are the key findings:

1) Among 18- to 34-year-old cell phone owners, 40 percent sleep with the devices and 33 percent text at the dinner table.

2) 17 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds would rather lose their car keys than their phones.

3) 53 percent of all cell phone users often bring the devices with them to the bathroom.

4) 28 percent of cell phone users admitted that they spend more time texting or looking at messages than they spend looking at loved ones. ---------

Anil Singh Thursday, December 9, 2010
Number of cellphone sales globally second quarter 2010
Sales of mobile phones rose 13.8 percent to 326 million units in the second quarter but average selling prices fell by more than expected amid intense competition, IT research firm Gartner said on Thursday.

Thus, Low prices drive second quarter phone sales up 14 percent. ---------

Anil Singh Friday, August 13, 2010
Top three countries based on number of cellphone users --May 2010
China ________________634 million
India_________________ 545 million
United States__________ 270 million

(figures from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency or CIA) ---------

Anil Singh Saturday, May 22, 2010
Number of cellphone subscribers in the world --May 2010
Worldwide, there are about 4.6 billion cellphone subscribers. The number is equal to about two-thirds of the world's population. (according to the International Telecommunications Union, a U.N. agency) ---------

Anil Singh
Why most people are annoyed by hearing someone speak on a cellphone: A scientific reason
The scientific reason is: Halfalogue

American researchers have found that overhearing a cellphone conversation is annoying (even more than overhearing two people talking) for one simple reason: Hearing only half of the conversation drains more attention and concentration than when overhearing two people talking.

And as a listener, one has less control to move away his/her attention from half a conversation (or halfalogue) hence it becomes more annoying than when listening to a dialogue.

The constant struggle to try to make sense of snippets of conversation and predict what speakers will say next makes listening to someone else's phone conservation attention demanding and hence annoying. ---------

Anil Singh
1 in 4 of U.S. homes only use cellphones
Nearly a quarter or 25.4 percent of U.S. homes have abandoned land lines and use only a cellphone, U.S. researchers at National Center for Health Statistics have reported. NCHS got its hands on the data as it relies heavily on telephone surveys to gather health information about the U.S. public.

Other findings of the study are:

-- 15 percent of households have standard plug-in phones but almost never use them.

-- 23 percent of adults, or 52 million people, lived in households with only wireless telephones.

-- Nearly half of adults aged 25 to 29 lived in households with only cellphones. ---------

Anil Singh Thursday, May 13, 2010