In a survey of iPhone owners, Rubicon Consulting found that a third of iPhone users carry a second phone in addition to their iPhone. I'm one of those folks: I have a T-Mobile phone that I use for personal calls; I use my iPhone as a business phone and for mobile Web and email. I didn't want to break my T-Mobile contract and I'm happy paying for a second phone to keep work and home separate. I didn't think I was the only one with two phones, but 33 percent seems surprisingly high. Here's something the survey didn't tell you, but you might have guessed: iPhone users have lots of disposable income. More details from the study after the jump.
- The most heavily used data function on the iPhone is reading (but not writing) email.
- More than 75 percent of iPhone users say it has led them to do more mobile browsing.
- About 40 percentof iPhone users say the iPhone has trouble displaying some websites they want to visit.
- About 50 percent of iPhones replaced conventional mobile phones, 40 percent replaced smartphones, and 10 percent replaced nothing. Among conventional phones, Motorola Razr was the phone most often replaced. Among smartphones, Windows Mobile and RIM BlackBerry models were most often replaced.
- 28 percent of iPhone users surveyed said strongly that they often carry their iPhone instead of a notebook computer.
- About half of iPhone users are under age 30 and about 15 percent are students
- The iPhone has increased its users' monthly mobile phone bills by an average of 24% percent, or $228 extra per year.
- Almost half of iPhone users changed carriers when they got the iPhone.
- The iPhone has probably increased AT&T's gross service revenue by about $2 billion per year.
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Comments
Duh... busy people need phones that are functional, not just pretty. Seriously, iPhone is a useless toy compared to Blackberry or windows mobile. Yes, they are mostly ugly, but they do more. Not to mention that it hardly fits 25% of my music library.
@grishick: Brilliant commentary there.
Have you ever used an iPhone? Some of us consider a phone with a full-fledged browser "functional".
@grishick: I use a blackberry all day and it is the most dysfunctional hunk of turd ever. My working theory is that you've never actually used an iphone. Well, that, or you have brain damage.
@CaliforniaCajun: Since when is the iPhone browser full-fledged? It must be handling flash now.
It's so sad to see apple fan bois falling all over themselves trying to defend something they bought so they can feel cool. Nobody cares! You're in an elite crowd with a guy named Robert Scoble.
@dalejo: It's not just the kool-aid drinkers who like it. I, personally, never wanted a gadget less until someone handed it to me and showed me the photo resizing. And I don't actually give a rat's ass about photo resizing, either. It is just intrinsically cool. It has an elegance that goes far beyond mere functionality. If I had the bux, I'd have the iPhone.
But I'd make it say "sent from my Altair."
For getting the internet on the phone it beats all in the market with its interface. Resizing the content means you actually read what is there. Not some cut down, crap the others show. Give it time and it will dominate the market for mobile browsing. (touch sceeen not so good for 'phone calls though :(, which is a pity because its got 'phone in its title)
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