Since the past several weeks, a few of my office colleagues have been talking ecstatically about getting company-issued smart phones. We have probably come to the time when finally, mobile phones are better than sex or nasi dagang ( a Terengganu staple diet). Just a few months ago I came across a survey conducted amongst 1,000 people in Britain which found that 85 per cent of people would rather give up chocolate, sex or alcohol for a month than their mobile phone handset.
An annual survey commissioned by Samsung Mobile to determine just how much of a priority people give to their cell phones found that three out of ten people said they’d give up sex for a year rather than giving up their mobile phones. Asked which they'd prefer -- sex or keeping their cell phone -- 36 percent of women interviewed and 15 percent of the men selected the phone. (Does this explains why 3 out of every 10 new marriages in Terengganu ends up in divorce in 3 to 5 years?).
OK girls, here’s the mobile phone, now gimme the sex!
You’d have thought that only people having affairs would never let go of their mobile phones (which would always be on vibrate mode). So that seems to unveil a new truth – tantric sex is in the mobile phone. Or have 36% of women arrived at the age of phone sex?
With Gartner’s report that 269.1 million mobile phones were sold worldwide in Q1 2009 ( a 8.5% decrease from Q1 2008), does it look like mobile phones is now replacing sex as a fundamental part of our being? Or is it going to be smartphones?
According to Gartner, worldwide smartphone sales in Q1 2009 surpassed 36.4 million units, a 12.7% increase from Q1 2008. Smartphone sales represented 13.5% of all mobile device sales in Q1 2009, compared with 11% in Q1 2008.
AdMob’s Mobile Metrics Report indicates that mobile web is on for explosive growth. The smartphone, iPhone and its non-smartphone counterpart, the iPod Touch, is powering the growth of mobile web. According to AdMob, these two devices accounts for 43% of all mobile web data traffic worldwide. According to Gartner, the Android smartphones sales will grow dramatically to be the iPhone’s contender and overtaking Symbian, Windows Mobile and Blackberry smartphones.
Could the smartphones be the thing that replace sex as our fundamental being? Or could it be the iPhone?
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