Monday, October 11, 2010

Are You An iPhone Or Android Users?

According to the consumer electronics shopping and review site Retrevo.com, gadget owners exhibit different behavior and characteristics depending on the gadget “camps” they are part of.
 
·         31% of Android owners don’t have a landline phone, compared to only 23% of iPhone and BlackBerry owners.
·         iPhone owners are more likely to be younger than other smartphone owners. They also are more likely to make purchases with their handsets, watch TV online, and rent movies from Blockbuster.
·         Users of handsets powered by Google’s mobile OS are more likely to own a netbook (45%); use their smart phone for GPS navigation (31%); not read books (14%); and not recycle (9%).
·         BlackBerry owners are the most likely to own an old CRT TV (59%); get most of their music from the radio ( 23%); and recycle their old gadgets (38%).
·         Households using a Mac as their primary computer buy three times as many iPhones, and almost six times as many iPads, compared to other households.
·         Those who use Apple computers as their primary computer often have other PCs in the house, but households that use PCs as their primary computer rarely have Macs in the house.