Sandeep Baweja is President of Intellex Strategic Consulting. In this factual compilation, Sandeep shares some mind-blowing facts about mobile technology usage around the world.

1. Go Mobile or Go Home
11 Must-Know Facts About Mobile
Technology and Usage

2. EMBRACING
MOBILE
TECHNOLOGY IS A
MUST FOR EVERY
BUSINESS, AS THE
FOLLOWING
STATISTICS AND
INFORMATION SHOW:

3. As of 2014, there are 7.2 billion
mobile-content devices in the
world, compared to 7.19 billion
people on earth.
MOBILE DEVICE WORLD
DOMINATION
HUMANS OUTNUMBERED!

4. Eighty-eight percent of adults in
the U.S. have a cell phone, 57
percent have a laptop, 19
percent own an e-reader, and 19
percent have a tablet.
GADGETS GONE WILD!

5. Typical mobile phone users check
their phone 150 times per day.
Excluding eight hours of sleep time,
this is more than nine times every
waking hour, or just about every six
minutes. Users in the “highest
frequency” of smartphone use check
their phones every six seconds.
JUST CAN’T GET ENOUGH
EVERY SIX MINUTES OF EVERY
WAKING HOUR

6. Eighty percent of smartphone
users check their mobile devices
within 15 minutes of waking up
each morning, presumably before
showering and eating breakfast.
In fact, the majority of these
users check personal emails
before they get out of bed.
MOST PEOPLE FIRST CHECK
THEIR PHONES
WITH STINKY BREATH

7. Peak mobile phone usage is
between 5 to 8 p.m. – during
traffic, dinner, and primetime
television.
DRIVE AND DINE GABBING

8. Seventy-nine percent of adult
smartphone users have their phones
with them for 22 hours a day. Ninety-
one percent of adults keep their
smartphones within arm’s reach. Forty-
four percent sleep with their mobile
phone bedside to check for calls, texts,
or other updates during the night.
(ALMOST) ALWAYS BY YOUR SIDE

9. Sixty-four percent of smartphone
owners are using their mobile
devices to shop online.
SMART SHOPPERS ON THE
GO-GO-GO

10. An estimated four billion people
in the world own mobile phones,
but only around 3.5 billion
people own toothbrushes. Wow!
MOBILE PHONES
OUTSHINE TEETH

11. Out of the world’s estimated
seven billion people, six billion
have access to mobile phones,
while only 4.5 billion people have
access to working toilets.
THE WORLD IS FLUSH WITH
MORE MOBILE PHONES THAN
WORKING TOILETS

12. The average tablet user spends
13.9 hours per week with an
electronic tablet, which is quickly
becoming the new laptop.
MOVE OVER LAPTOPS,
TABLETS ARE DA NEW THANG

13. Text messaging users send or
receive an average of 35
messages per day. Texting has
become the core communication
method in our world today.
SHUT UP – TEXT, DON’T TALK

14. Sandeep Baweja
President of Intellex Strategic Consulting
www.sandeepbaweja.com