The proportion of individuals utilized different functions of cell phones between 2006 and 2010.
Overall, there was an upward trend in the number of people who used features, except making calls, with searching the internet witnessing the most dramatic rise in the latter half of the period. In addition, most phone users used their phones to make calls.
The percentage of people utilizing mobile phones for playing games increased significantly from 17% in 2006 to reach a peak of 42% in 2008, but later fell to 41% in 2010. The share of everyone using the feature of making calls was at 100% in 2006, maintained at this level until 2008, and a final drop to 99% 2 years later.
12% individuals playing music on their mobile devices in 2006, followed by an increase to 18% in 2008 and it later grew to 26% in the last year of the period. Similar changes can be seen in the figures for taking photos and sending and receiving text messages, rose from 66% and 73% in 2006 to 71% and 75% in 2008, before ending the period at 76% and 79% respectively . The statistics for humans searched the internet and recorded video started at 41% and 9% in 2008, which it experienced a growth to 73% and 35% in 2010.