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Survey: 54% of students use their phone primarily for texting

By on August 25, 2011 at 12:01pm in Mobile News


A recent survey, commissioned by Best Buy Mobile, shows that students text more than talk. This is not too surprising as the CWTA just announced that there was over 18 billion text messages sent in Q2 2011. The results are based on feedback between August 2-4 of “601 randomly selected college and university students from Vancouver, Calvary, Toronto and Montreal”.

Here are some of the key findings:
- 60% cell phone users own smartphones
- Montreal has the lowest smartphone usage at 50%, while Toronto is the highest with 65%
- 54% of students use their phone primarily for texting
- 31% use their phones for talking, Males use their phone more for talking than females
- 44% of respondents who own a smartphone use Facebook as their primary communication app
- 20% of respondents who own a smartphone use BlackBerry Messenger (BBM)
- 20% of respondents who own a smartphone don’t use apps for communication
- 5% of respondents who own a smartphone use Twitter
- Males respondents from Vancouver are most likely to own iPhones, whereas females in Calgary are most likely to own a BlackBerry.

Source: CNW

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Discussion

25 comments for “Survey: 54% of students use their phone primarily for texting”

  1. “Males respondents from Vancouver are most likely to own iPhones” -Hmmph how’d they know =/

    anyways those are some very interesting stats. only 5% tweet ? and i’d of thought girls would be on the phone more then guys

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    Posted by Sean | August 25, 2011, 12:10 pm
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  2. I call BS on the ” Males use their phone more for talking than females” part…

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    Posted by Danny Boy | August 25, 2011, 12:11 pm
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    • LOL – janjan got owned

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      Posted by Kilps | August 25, 2011, 12:59 pm

    • Boo baba kanda

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      Posted by Kilps | August 25, 2011, 1:06 pm

    • no I think that stat may be right. Girls text alot, us guys dont want to do that, so we call our friends instead of waiting or starting a damn text. I know I call my friends when I want to meet up and that takes like one minute…

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      Posted by Trey | August 25, 2011, 2:52 pm

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    Posted by Yashar | August 25, 2011, 12:16 pm
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  4. Students texting a lot…not exactly a big surprise for me LOL!

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    Posted by LeanNSupreme | August 25, 2011, 12:17 pm
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    • It’s a lot easier to hide your texting in class than to hide talking on the phone in class. :)

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      Posted by Stuntman | August 25, 2011, 1:02 pm

  5. Because data plans are too expensive.

    Who would want to use TXT when you can have unlimited international multi-platform instant messaging with services such as MSN, Google Talk… ?

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    Posted by Mathieu | August 25, 2011, 12:32 pm
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    • Data plans aren’t that bad if you shop around. Personally, I have unlimited texts and 250 mb of data on Telus Prepaid for $20/month. 250 mb isn’t a tonne, but if used carefully I can squeeze a lot of messaging, email, twitter, and opera mini out of it. Telus also has a 500 mb plan for $25, and 1 gb for $30. I don’t have much need to call so these kinds of plans are perfect.

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      Posted by maattp | August 25, 2011, 12:34 pm

  6. Personally, I use my phone for reading articles, emailing, texting, music, twitter, and facebook. I don’t use it primarily for any one thing.

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    Posted by maattp | August 25, 2011, 12:32 pm
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  7. They should do research on the % of OS usage and which carriers they are using.

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    Posted by Jigsaw | August 25, 2011, 12:38 pm
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  8. Samsung will rule all!

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    Posted by Bidan Does Dallas | August 25, 2011, 1:05 pm
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  9. how many people use their phones for pRon?

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    Posted by Steven Pancock | August 25, 2011, 1:23 pm
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  10. In other obvious news, the sun is hot.

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    Posted by Slype | August 25, 2011, 1:42 pm
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    • so is your mom

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      Posted by Talaha | August 25, 2011, 1:48 pm

    • No she’s not… She’s, ummm, well-traveled and used. Trust me, you should stay away, especially with your size deficiency.

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      Posted by Boski | August 25, 2011, 8:01 pm

  11. Texting… what a waste of time. It’s incredible how many girls are texting and wasting time on facebook. How can you sustain a conversation for more than 45 seconds while texting??? Anyway, I’m a boy, so I can’t understand, I guess.

    *Back to Sonic 2 and Phantasy star 4 on my Genesis emulator for Android. — No, this is not a waste of time — :P

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    Posted by Phil R | August 26, 2011, 9:56 am
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  12. Random impressions:

    - Smartphone ownership. Yeah, that sounds about right. Seeing someone at the U of C campus without some sort of a smartphone is getting rare.
    - Texting… yeah. It certainly holds up for me. Not everything warrants a phone call.
    - Facebook as the main communication app… really? That’s news to me. Probably because I don’t have Facebook.
    - BBM… yeah. Definitely. Every Blackberry user I’ve asked at school was really into BBM. It was always the primary reason they owned a Blackberry.
    - Girls definitely like their Blackberrys here. And iPhones. Bit more variety among guys, from what I’ve seen.

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    Posted by floobie | August 28, 2011, 4:14 pm
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