What do you use your phone for? [actually]

[Ron Gramann]

Instead of focusing on what apps are or are not available for Windows Phone, I thought it may be interesting to see how users actually use their phones.

Personally, I only use my phone (to make phone calls) roughly 5% of the time - if that.

My breakdown includes:

30% News and Information (Weave, Fuse, WPCentral, CNN, Amazing Weather, etc)
20% Email
15% Surfing the Web
10% Quick Reference (IMDB, All Recipes, etc)
5% Maps & Navigation
5% Books (Kindle)
5% Photos
5% Phone & Txt Messaging
5% Social (Twitter)

(No, I did not forget to include Games)

I thought this kind of information may be of some value for developers, since it focuses on usage rather than missing or inferior apps.

Your thoughts?

 

[sinime]

IDK about my percentages, but the apps I use most of the time ( In order of use):

People Hub
WPCentral
Gaming (various titles)
IE
Beer Knurd
Fail Blog (various, not crazy about apps I've used so I haven't settled on 1)

 

[JerseySal]

Political News, Weather, WPCentral,blogging about politics, music, games, photos, CardStar

 

[ricardios]

Mainly news - weather, sports, tech. Email and text. Internet, camera, and quick note taking.

 

[Laura Knotek]

Twitter, RSS feeds, WPCentral, email, WhatsApp, browser, streaming audio/video, maps, SMS/MMS, weather, sports scores, games, camera.

Phone calls are the feature I use the least.

 

[bawboh86]

RSS feeds, WPCentral, email, Twitter, Facebook, checking my DeviantArt messages, games, music, texting, phone calls, and the camera. Sometimes, I use it to take notes in meetings with OneNote, too.

 

[NinjaPenguin777]

Texting
Phone calls
Checking weather (I never used to do this until WP8)
Checking email
Using the internet
Other (Pictures, Music, other apps)

 

[Chregu]

Music, Email, news, games, short messages, WPCentral forum, Whatsapp... I seldom use the phone function.

But what I think I do definitely the most is remodeling the home screen

 

[CDG]

• News and Weather
• Forum Surfing
• E - Mail
• Texting
• GroupMe
• Facebook/Tweeter
• Reading books
• Alarm
• Calendar & To Do list
• Phone calls
• Camera
• Navigation.

No Games

 

[diavol]

Texting,gaming,sending mails,alarm,music,taking photos,news...

 

[budney]

1. Facebook/Twitter
2. Music
3. Text/GroupMe
4. News/Sports/Weather
5. Email
6. Browse Forums/Board Express
7. Phone Calls
8. Games
9. Alarm/Timer

 

[justmoe40]

60% emails
30% calls
8% mixture of showing off camera and installing apps/updates
2% games

 

[GSOgymrat]

Music probably 90% of the time. My 920 is like a MP3 player that also happens to make phone calls.

Email
Internet sharing for my tablet
Runstatic
GPS navigation
Audiobooks
Phone calls
Camera

I don't prefer reading news, surfing the net, watching videos or playing games on a phone due to the small screen size. I usually have my Surface with me for those things and will only use the phone as a last resort.

 

[fatclue_98]

Calendar - 50%
Email - 30%
eBay & PayPal - 10%
Text & Phone - 10%

Weather? Who cares, it's hot as **** in Miami every day!

 

[Kebero]

Communication, PIM, news, weather & reference, web browsing, some light gaming and streaming media, and the camera (920)

 

[irvin792]

Web browsing 50%
Texting 25%
Camera 10%
Calendar 5%
Email 5%
Games/Apps 2%
Phone Calls 2%
GPS 1%

And I wonder why my battery life sucks

 

[Old_Cus]

Email (5 accounts)
Alarms (3 every morning)
Calendars (3 merged)
Weather
Facebook
Calls/Texting
WP Central/Windows Phone News
Camera/Pictures
Other apps (Amazon Mobile, CNN,Ebay,Flixster,GasBuddy,Yelp, etc)

*I also have Ask Ziggy but I rarely use it. I just have it to show my iphone friends.

 

[zokstar]

Music
Calls
SMS/Whatsapp
Time & track my runs
Camera
Facebook
Emails
Weather

 

[Dadstar0410]

~45% streaming media
20% People Hub
10% texting
10% forum posting
10% checking weather
5% email, calls, browsing

 

[dipayanster]

30% Facebook mobile
10% FB chat + gtalk
20% News reader (RSS)
10% forum + call + text + navigation + game + camera + music + video
30% email

not using at all: calender, weather, podcast