The two pie charts depict the percentage of time spent on smartphones and tablets as per six different categories of software, ranging from games to social networking, utilities and several others.
Overall, while both platforms are heavily used for entertainment via gaming, tablets are preferred for media consumption, whereas smartphones are favoured for social networking and practical applications.
Games represent the most popular category on both platforms, accounting for 35% of smartphone usage and an even larger 57% on tablets. Smartphone users spend nearly twice as much time on social networking (29%) compared to tablet users, who allocate only 15% of their time in this activity.
Smartphone usage shows that is one-fifth of proportion dedicated towards utilities, a figure that drops significantly to just 3% on tablets. After that, the proportion of time spent on music and videos is higher on tablets (13%) than on smartphones (8%). A minimal proportion of time is spent on the news on both smartphones (3%) and tablets (4%). unspecified applications mentioned as other, which shows 5% and 8% of total usage respectively.
