The table shows comparisons of how various purposes of using a phone changed in 3 years: 2006, 2008 and 2010.
It is apparent that mobile phones became such versatiles devices that rather than just calling, picture taking and messaging, increases in using other functions (playing games, searching, playing music and recording video) were recorded in the given period.
100% of mobile phone owners claimed that they used phones for calling, remaining stable throughout the period. Text messaging was the second most popular task, and similar to calling, the percentage of users texting via mobile phone leveled off.
In 2006, the proportion of individuals taking photos on phones was about one third, then continued to rise to 76% 4 years later. Likewise, the rate of using phones for games and music occupied a small minority each in the first year. In 2010, they reached 41% and 26% correspondingly. The data for people using the Internet and video recording function on telephones were not recorded until 2008. The percentage of consumers using the Internet was roughly 5 times larger than that of recording video, with nearly 40% and 10% respectively. In the next two years, while Internet searching function took the fourth position in the most common usage with a two-fold climb, video recording secured the second position in the least used purpose with 35%.