The table illustrates the percentages of mobile phone users utilizing different features between 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Overall, the most common feature on used phone is making call in all periods. furthermore, the usage of all available features increased year by year. Moreover, playing games has experienced the highest increase.
In 2014, the most popular features was making calls, at 100% and it followed by texting massaging, at 74%. In addition, playing music and taking photos accounted for 68% while recording video was only one percentage point behind them, at 67%. Also, only 40% of people used their phone for searching the internet. Otherwise, playing games was unpopular, only at 20%.
In 2015, the most significant change was playing games, increasing by 36 percentage points to 59%. This was followed by searching the internet, playing music and recording video which rose by 21, 14 and 12 percentage points to 61%, 82% and 79%, respectively. Additionaly, taking photos and texting massaging experienced only 5 points rise to 73% and 79%, respectively. On the other hand making call remained popular and unchanged.
In 2016, playing game showed the highest change, increasing by 23 percentage point to 82%, while texting massaging and searching the internet changed by the same percentage to 85% and 73%, respectively. In contrast playing music, recording video and taking photos has undergone a slight increase, at 90%, 85% and 80%, respectively. Also the lowest change was making call, decreasing 1 percentage point to 99% and remained the most common feature of total.