Cell Phone Usage
Changing Trends in Cell Phone Usage
As mobile phone technology evolves and improves, becoming an affordable option for mobile communication, consumers from all walks of life are taking advantage of the available technology. With the ability to access email or surf the internet from anywhere, even students, stay at home moms and retirees are turning towards mobile phones to help them with their mobile communication needs. These days, mobile phones that are internet and email capable are no longer just the tools of the high-powered business person.
Mobile technology evolution has left many consumers with a type of “keeping up with the Jones’” attitude; which, in this case, unfortunately can be an expensive attitude to have. Mobile phones that are email and internet browsing capable (or smart phones) are not always the most affordable of devices to purchase brand new.
Consumers do have the option to buy the phones at a discount, however, by signing up with their mobile carriers for a one or two year contract; the phones are then sold to consumers at a lower cost via a mail-in-rebate.
An alternative to signing the contracts and to purchasing a smart phone at a discounted cost from a mobile carrier is to purchase a refurbished phone from a reliable source. In most cases, refurbished cell phones can be found at greater cost savings than you will find via mail in rebates on new phones.
The refurbished cell phone market allows everyone access to the latest in mobile phone technology, while also making the used cell phones a more affordable option than a brand new phone. A student on a limited budget, for example, can own a cell phone that will allow him to keep track of his classes, friends, social networking sites, and family; additionally, it will also allow him an easy reference source right at his fingertips.
Another interesting trend in the mobile phone arena is the variation in the average user age. Teenagers are, often due to their limited budget, purchasing used cell phones so that they can keep up with the same cell phone models that their friends are using. Teenagers are known for their (often times excessive) text sending and receiving as well as accessing their favorite social networking sites from their mobile phones. On the other end of the age spectrum, there is a large and growing group of mobile phone users who are older than the perceived average user’s age; those who are perhaps retired and would not necessarily be the target consumers for makers of the latest and greatest in mobile phone technology. A used cell phone allows them access to the same, or very similar, mobile phones that their families would perhaps be using at a more affordable cost; it would also allow them better communication with their friends and family via their used mobile phones.
As mobile phone technology improves and evolves, at an unbelievably rapid pace, trends related to the mobile phone market are also going to be evolving at a rapid pace. The used mobile phone market will allow everyone the ability to keep up with the technology at a more affordable price.
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Why hasn’t the auto accident rate risen with cell phone usage?
If you look at rates for auto fatalities and auto accidents, they haven’t changed much in the period of time when cell phone usage has skyrocketed. It seems to me that a lot of the time I see an erratic driver, s/he is on the cell phone. Why haven’t auto fatality and accident rates gone up with cell phone usage?
Originally, state police officers did not, nor were they required to, collect information about cell phone usage when getting information for a vehicle accident report, but now more and more states have enacted laws requiring police to gather cell phone usage information when reporting a car accident.
Several states such as Louisiana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania have already approved cell phone driving studies, making the future gathering of cell phone statistics more feasible.
http://www.newsdial.com/technology/communication/cell-phone-statistics.html
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