Smartphones: 30% of time is spent on communication

New Delhi: A new global report released by Ericsson on Thursday claims that 30 percent of time spent by users on all smartphone apps is on communication. As per the report, though smartphones have a wide range of functions such as entertainment, games and photography, communication continues to be the dominant activity with users spending time on communicating through voice, instant messaging, voice over internet protocol (such as Skype), emails and social networking. "We found that 40-50 percent of data consumption for communication apps uses mobile broadband, whereas the corresponding figure for video is just 20 percent," says Swetleena Swain, senior advisor at Ericsson ConsumerLab.