Survey: Tech Lovers Choose Cellphones Over Sex

Release Date 5 Aug, 2011 in Wired News

 
   

Forget About Devices! Why IT Execs Should Focus On Content

Forbes (blog) - Eric Savitz - 5 Aug, 2011
If I read one more article about the “consumerization” of IT, I'm going to get very, very angry. Yes, the tech titans among us have figured out that employees use their own personal devices to get work done. And yes, enterprises need to keep their data ...

feature phone

CNET - Eric Mack - 5 Aug, 2011
TeleNav found that a surprising number of people prefer their phones over other earthly pleasures (Click to enlarge.) The risk of stepping on a rusty nail and contracting tetanus is nothing like the horror of spending a full week without an iPhone. ...

Apple: RBC Cheered By Visit With Cook, Oppenheimer

Barron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - 5 Aug, 2011
Amidst all the activity in the market today, I almost missed that RBC Capital's Mike Abramsky wrote up his findings from a meeting yesterday with Apple's (AAPL) COO Tim Cook, and CFO Peter Oppenheimer. I'm afraid the note contains no ...

Covering Seattle news, weather, arts and conversation, along with a grab bag ...

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - 5 Aug, 2011
Would you rather have a smartphone or be able to eat chocolate? Have a smartphone or wear shoes? Have a smartphone or have sex? You might be surprised how some people answered those questions. Then again, you might not. ...

iPhone users would give up shoes and sex for their beloved phones

CBS News - 5 Aug, 2011
(CBS/CNET) - We've all heard such tales... Man or woman loses his or her iPhone. Man or woman loses his or her mind. Imagine you met this fate? What if you leave your iPhone at a store only to return to find nothing? Heck, leaving your iPhone at home ...

Survey: Tech Lovers Choose Cellphones Over Sex

Wired News - Alexander George - 5 Aug, 2011
iPhone owners were the most willing to give up all sorts of luxuries to hold on to their device. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com A large number of cellphone owners would rather give up sex than their handsets, according to a survey. ...

How Americans Value Their Phones Compared To Sex, Chocolate, And Shoes

Huffington Post - ‎Aug 3, 2011‎
Are you master of your domain? Could going without your mobile phone for a week make you one? A new survey conducted by mobile GPS company TeleNav suggests that, for a week at a time at least, many Americans are willing to give up some of life's, er, ...

Survey Finds One-Third of Americans More Willing to Give Up Sex Than Their ...

MarketWatch (press release) - ‎Aug 3, 2011‎
SUNNYVALE, CA, Aug 03, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Results of a recent national survey* commissioned by TeleNav, Inc. /quotes/zigman/118009/quotes/nls/tnav TNAV -1.33% indicate that Americans are willing to give up some of life's greatest pleasures ...

TeleNav summer survey: 33% would give up sex instead of their phone

ZDNet (blog) - Matthew Miller - ‎Aug 3, 2011‎
Summary: I enjoy using my smartphones, but I personally wouldn't give up intimate time with my wife for one of my phones. I truly enjoy today's modern smartphones and love to both use hardware and apps ...

Apple's Low-End iPhone Launch ...

The Next Web - 5 Aug, 2011
According to RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky, Apple would only launch a low-end iPhone handset if the device would provide an “innovative, category killer experience”, reports AppleInsider. Abramsky met with Apple COO Tim Cook and CFO Peter ...

Apple execs: Cheap iPhone only an option as a “category-killer”

GigaOm - Darrell Etherington - 5 Aug, 2011
Apple CTO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer sat down with RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky on Wednesday (via AppleInsider), and according to the analyst, the executives were keen to ...

The iPhone Is the New iPod

Seeking Alpha - 5 Aug, 2011
Apple (AAPL) has just become the top smart phone vendor. It has captured 66% of the profits of the whole mobile phone industry, while selling only 5.6% of units. The iPhone is just over four years old. The odds of these statements becoming true were ...

iPhone Nano 'only viable if it's an Android killer,' say Apple execs

uSwitch.com (Tech) - Jonathan Leggett - 5 Aug, 2011
Apple would only enter the lower-end phone market if it could deliver a handset capable of outdoing cheap Android smartphones, some of the tech giant highest-ranking execs have reportedly revealed. Rumours of a cut-price version of the iPhone using ...

RBC: Apple would only launch low-cost iPhone if it had 'category-killer ...

Apple Insider - Josh Ong - 5 Aug, 2011
After a meeting with two of Apple's top executives, RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky said the company's primary requirement for launching a lower-end iPhone is whether the handset would provide an "innovative, category-killer ...

Which Would You Rather: Cell Phone or Sex For a Week?

33 KDAF-TV - 5 Aug, 2011
What's more important to you: your cell phone or your significant other? Phrased slightly differently: which would you rather give up for a week? Location-based services provider Telenav surveyed more than 500 mobile phone users of driving age last ...

Would you rather give up your toothbrush or your iPhone?

Today's iPhone - Jake Rosati - 5 Aug, 2011
Recently TeleNav conducted a national survey and received some very interesting results. The tagline basically says it all: 514 driving-age American mobile phone users " consisting of both ...

Many Are Willing To Give Up Toothbrushes, Chocolate, or Alcohol But Not Their ...

AppAdvice - Sue Megrund, Thu August - 5 Aug, 2011
Apparently iPhone users care more about their phone than they do their breath. Telenav did a survey and found that 22 percent of 514 US respondents would be willing to give up their toothbrush versus their smartphone. For iPhone users this number jumps ...

Android Wins in June, iOS & WP7 Steady, RIM & webOS Still Falling

Review St. Louis - 5 Aug, 2011
Google's Android operating system scored the only gains from the previous month. Essentially they were the only operating system that managed to steal subscribers from the competition. Both iOS and WP7 maintained the exact same market share percentage. ...

Cell Phone, Smartphone Survey: Sex or Texts?

Newser - Matt Cantor - 5 Aug, 2011
(Newser) " If you'd prefer a sexless week to a phoneless one, you're in good company: A third of Americans agree with you, a survey finds. Some 70% of Americans would turn down alcohol for a week rather than leave their ...

FDA Plans Oversight on Mobile Medical Apps

Citizens Report - 5 Aug, 2011
A wave of new software applications allow doctors to view X-rays and monitor heart rates from smartphone applications, prompting the FDA to propose government oversight for some of the more complex apps. Government officials worry that the apps could ...

94% of iPhone users will buy ...

The Next Web - 5 Aug, 2011
The iPhone has shown massive growth over the last several quarters running, with 20.3 million units being sold in Q3 alone and traditionally high satisfaction ratings. That's why it's not surprising that a recent note from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene ...

Smartphone Love Trumps Sex, Shoes and Sugar

TMC Net - Juliana Kenny - 5 Aug, 2011
Smartphones appear to be hindering our natural human instinct to procreate, if I had to draw a conclusion from this recent study conducted by TeleNav. The study found that large numbers of smartphone users would rather give up things ...

RIP RIM: 67% Of Blackberry Owners Want To Switch To An iPhone

Cult of Mac - Ed Sutherland - 5 Aug, 2011
As BlackBerry-maker RIM clings to life-support, more than half of the smartphone's owners have Apple's iPhone on speed-dial. More than half of BlackBerry users intend to switch to the iconic iPhone as Wall ...

Survey: Third of Americans Rather Have Phones Than Sex

myfoxny.com - 5 Aug, 2011
(EndPlay Staff Reports) - If given a choice between sex and their mobile phones for a week, many Americans would rather keep the phone. That is among findings of a survey commissioned by mobile GPS company TeleNav Inc. The survey finds smartphone users ...

Sex, Showers, Chocolate, or Smartphones?

WebProNews - ‎Aug 4, 2011‎
Smartphones have made the transition from luxury to necessity. Think about what we rely on our smart devices for " phones calls, text messages, calendar, social media, games, web browsing, the weather, camera, maps…the list is endless. ...

Survey: One-third of Americans pick mobile phones over sex

Bizjournals.com - ‎Aug 4, 2011‎
TeleNav said that based on a recent survey it conducted, one-third of the respondents would be more willing to stop having sex for a week as opposed to giving up their mobile phones. TeleNav conducted a survey asking mobile phone users a variety of ...

Smartphone over sex? Yep, for a third of survey respondents

Siliconrepublic.com - ‎Aug 4, 2011‎
One-third of smartphone owners would opt to give up sex for a week than go without their devices within reach, a survey by navigation company TeleNav suggests. In the survey of more than 500 people in the US, one in five respondents said they would ...

How your smartphone can make you money

Recombu - Mat Smith - ‎Aug 4, 2011‎
There's an awful lot of power in your smartphone - and admittedly you've paid for it, so perhaps it's time it starts paying its way. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to do this without simply selling ...

Sex and Shoes, Both Lose to Smartphones

International Business Times - ‎Aug 4, 2011‎
By IB Times Staff Reporter | August 4, 2011 4:12 AM EDT Continuous growth of smartphone market in the US clearly reflects how people are attached to their cellphones, but a report from TeleNav shows how willing Americans are to compromise on other ...

One-third of Americans prefer their smartphone over sex

Digitaltrends.com - ‎Aug 3, 2011‎
When did playing Angry Birds, updating Facebook and reading emails on a smartphone become preferable over having sex? Thirty-three percent of American smartphone owners fall into that category according to a new study. In a study conducted by TeleNav, ...

 

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