The table provides data about the various usage of people’s smartphones in a specific developing country in the years 2006, 2008 and 2010.
Overall, it is clear that making phone calls was the main function of seven various uses throughout the given time. Moreover, although almost all the functions were used more frequently, the percentage of browsing the Internet through cellphones showed the largest increase.
Most conspicuously, people majorly used personal phones to make calls, with 100% of the aggregate population in both 2006 and 2008, and 1 percent beneath that figure in 2010. Following this, texting and photographing ranked the second and the third respectively, both with a steady increase during the provided period, bringing the percentage of taking photos from 66% in 2006 to 76% in 2010. Similarly, a comparatively smaller rise occurred in messaging, and the figure for that ascended from 73% in 2006 to 79% in 2010.
Compared with the first three functions, the rest four uses demonstrated a more striking increase in popularity despite the relatively small percentages. The percentage of people using phones to access the Internet was 41 in 2008. That figure almost doubled in the next two years. Similarly, the percentages of civilians playing games and music through phones grew dramatically, from 17% and 12% in 2006 to 41% and 26% in 2008. That figure for recording videos well above tripled during the given period.