The table gives information on the proportion of mobile phone users utilizing seven different features in three years, 2006, 2008, and 2010.
Overall, calling was the most universal feature, while playing music was the least used one across the period. Additionally, all phone features recorded an increase in the percentages of people using them, with newer features including Internet searching and video recording witnessing the most significant rises.
To be more specific, the most commonly used features throughout the timeframe were basic functions. Calling ranked first, used by all users initially before its figures slipping marginally to 99% in 2010. The second most popular feature was messaging, whose percentages rose by 6%, from 73% in 2006 to nearly four-fifths by 2010. Following closely was photography, also experiencing an increase from approximately two-thirds of users to over three-quarters by the end of the period.
Regarding the entertainment-related functions, the percentages of people using phones for games more than doubled to 41% in 2010, despite a minor decrease of 1% between the period. Music playing’s figures also underwent a rise, though more moderately, by 13% to over one-quarter of users. Two newer features, for which no data was available in 2006, recorded the sharpest growth, with Internet searching climbing by 32% to 73%, and video recording leaping by nearly six times to 35% by 2010.