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Top Mobile Activities in the U.S.

– February 11, 2011Posted in: Mobile, News & Information, U.S.
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Text messaging lead as the top mobile activity with 68 percent of Americans texting in December 2010, while more than half took a photo with their mobile device (52.4 percent) and 39.5 percent of subscribers accessed news and information. Although application usage continued to grow in 2010, slightly more Americans (36.4 percent) used their mobile browser than accessed applications (34.4 percent).

Share of Mobile Subscribers (%)

Tags: 2010 U.S. Digital Year in Review, app usage, application usage, Mobile, mobile browser usage, mobile content, mobile email usage, Mobile Usage, MobiLens, top mobile activities

2 Comments

  1. Joseph Kurian
    Posted February 11, 2011 at 10:28 AM

    Some questions for me here. Did they do the activities like weather, email, maps, video, IM etc using apps or their browser? That isn’t clear to me here. Its not clear I can use this graphic and tell people that apps are the least used because I don’t really know how they accessed some of the activities they performed online. A more helpful look at this data would be to break it out by Text, Web and Apps and for the last two have a breakdown of what activities they performed. My 2 cents.

  2. Stephanie Lyn Flosi
    Posted February 14, 2011 at 2:27 PM

    The data in the above reflect content accessed through applications, browsers and SMS services. A more detailed look at content accessed from apps and browsers specifically can be found in our 2010 Mobile Year in Review report, available for download here: http://comscore.com/Press_Events/Presentations_Whitepapers/2011/2010_Mobile_Year_in_Review

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