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WOULD YOU FEEL worse about losing your smartphone or your wallet?
According to seven out of 10 smartphone users in Ireland, losing their beloved phone is a far worse scenario than losing their wallet. That’s according to the people who took part in the MobileCover.ie smartphone trends survey.
The survey also showed that one in four smartphones are stolen from your person.
And where do Irish people tend to lose their phones the most? In bar, restaurant and nightclub environments, no less.
Pic: MobileCover.ie
Lost
Around 18 per cent of those surveyed have had their smartphone stolen, while around one in five people have lost their mobile phone at some point. In order to try and prevent handset damage, around 6 in 10 people now have a protective cover for their phone.
Of those who have had their phone stolen, nearly 40 per cent have had it stolen in a bar, restaurant or nightclub setting, while one in four thefts have occurred from the person themselves.
In terms of lost smartphones, around one in three devices were lost in a nightclub/bar/restaurant environment, while 20 per cent were lost while commuting.
But despite all this, just one in three smartphone users use a security or tracking app to help locate a lost or stolen device, and of those users, some 54 per cent use Find My iPhone while some 25 per cent use Lookout for iPhone or Android devices.
Popular brands
The survey shows that Samsung is now the most owned smartphone brand among those surveyed (37.1 per cent), followed by Apple (25.1 per cent), Nokia (14.3 per cent), HTC (9.5 per cent), Sony (4.8 per cent), LG (1.1 per cent) and combined others (8.1 per cent).
Almost 20 per cent of respondents said they want to upgrade their smartphone over the Christmas period, but 38 per cent are to wait until 2013 and another 7 per cent will wait until 2014. Ten per cent of people said they are going to hold onto their existing smartphone.
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3bn texts in a 3 month period in Ireland, 12 bn in a year..
a 2 cent text tax would have raised ?240 million, All of the ?26m needed to protect the carers respite grant & child benefit. If my sums are right.
(0.02 x 12,000,000,000
= 240,000,000
This would be a creative and some what optional tax that does not effect peoples ability to survive.
Correct but since the boys in the Dail have free phones paid by, as with everything else, the taxpayer, then we would be worse off and they would once again be untouched.
Why should mobile users pay for the carer’s allowance. A couple of percent tax increase for high earners would easily make up the millions the government took from them.
isn’t there already VAT on text messaging? so double taxation is your answer?
@Gamma, I’m just trying to think of less painful ways to help our country…
Do you have any better idea’s? We’d love to hear them.
Your response is what is wrong with us, all moan no solution.
You can call it what you want but it doesn’t take food out of peoples mouths.. and that’s the point.
tooooo much calculations, tooooo much percentages, all we care for is to bring down all this mobile nd landline broadband services nd make it moooore effective in using, it’s tooo expensive here in Ireland compare to other EU country
Does that include iMessages which are free?
Presumably this includes FREE SMS with Vodafone to Any Network for Life (I’m assuming 3, O2, Meteor, 48, Eircon etc. all do similar deals for RTG Customers?)?
Top of my head I sent 1152 in October. Think highest was 2,170 in November 2011. Averages out at Circa 1,300 ish during/across the year.
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