Cell phones minus the phone

Well, this was already obvious to anyone that's paying attention, but people aren't using their cell phones to make phone calls anymore.

So here's the numbers, oddly from Fortune magazine.

In the last two years, average number of text messages sent per month has doubled from 218 to 584. The average number of calls has decreased 15%, I'm guessing to under 200 calls a month.

Combined with the data from this 2008 article, the number of cell phone calls made per month peaked at 228 in the middle of 2007 and has been slowly falling since. The average amount of time spent talking on a cell phone per month seems to be 13 hours.

In other news, it's hard to find any statistics on cell phones that aren't about how cell phones cause car accidents


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