Smartphone Personality Test: Can You Judge Me Now?
Does your smartphone choice say you love sports cars, your mom's basement, or gardening? Listen up.
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What does your smartphone say about you? Numerous studies in recent years have attempted to tackle this critical question, perhaps the most serious issue of our time after why a McDonald's hamburger doesn't spoil.
Here are some recent findings:
A 2013 study by Australian telecommunications company Telstra revealed that iPhone users are, for the most part, extroverts who enjoy traveling, playing sports, entertaining at home, and such personal luxuries as massages and facials, according to news.com.au. Samsung users are conscientious, agreeable, and enjoy exercise and video games. HTC fans are gamers as well but, sadly, are less affable than either iPhone or Samsung users.
Oh, and if you use a basic phone, maybe a clamshell or slider, you're older and into gardening. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Another 2013 study, this one from UK wireless provider TalkTalk Mobile, surveyed 2,000 customers of three major smartphone platforms -- iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry -- and uncovered an eclectic mélange of personality traits, some less than flattering, for each user group, the Daily Mail reported. The survey found that iPhone users are vain, ambitious, flirty, and enjoy spending money. The BlackBerry crowd is social, punctual, loud, and ambitious. Meanwhile, Android users are creative, polite, introverted, and tend to drink the most.
Finally, there's a 2011 report by the Idiap Research Institute of Switzerland, which studied the smartphone usage habits of 117 Nokia N95 users over a 17-month period. Though highly technical, the report does offer some easy-to-grasp conclusions concerning the link between personality, gender, and smartphone activity.
Extroverts, known for being talkative and outgoing, are more likely to receive calls and spend more time talking on their phones, the study found. No surprise there. "Conscientious" users, meaning organized and responsible folk, contact fewer people through voice calls, but use the N95's Mail app more often and the YouTube app less often than other personality types.
So what does it all mean? Probably very little, but we can make some general assumptions. It seems that people's hard-wired personality traits play a major role in how they use a smartphone, which, after all, is primarily a communication device. However, if you happen to prefer other modes of data-based communication, you're not necessarily an introvert. You might, in fact, be on the leading edge of a growing trend -- the declining popularity of the traditional phone call -- that mobile analysts began noticing a few years ago.
That's all well and good, but if you want to know what we think your smartphone of choice really says about you, click through the slideshow.
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(Source: Michael)
BlackBerry
Style: Old school
Main attraction: That keyboard is like Mom's apple pie.
What it says about you: I loved 2004 and I'm never leaving.
(Source: Blackphone)
Blackphone
Style: Classified
Main attraction: Nobody knows when I'm playing "Flappy Bird."
What it says about you: Danger is my middle name.
(Source: Compudemano)
Apple iPhone 5c
Style: Unapologetically plastic
Main attraction: A low-cost phone that isn't low cost.
What it says about you: My parents won't buy me an iPhone 6.
(Source: Kārlis Dambrāns)
Nokia Lumia 1520
Style: Megapixel madness
Main attraction: That crazy 41-MP camera.
What it says about you: I crop, therefore I am.
(Source: Abdelfattah Benammi)
Amazon Fire Phone
Style: Meh
Main attraction: Dynamic Perspective, which, um, does something totally cool... I think.
What it says about you: I'm being held captive by Amazon Prime. Mayday!
(Source: Kārlis Dambrāns)
HTC One M8
Style: Brushed and smooth
Main attraction: You're the only person you know who has one.
What it says about you: Very little, and I like it that way.
(Source: torbakhopper)
Flip Phone
Style: Sexy Grandpa
Main attraction: Butt-dialing is impossible.
What it says about you: I hate the Internet.
(Source: Kārlis Dambrāns)
Samsung Galaxy Note
Style: The original whopper
Main attraction: iPhone users aren't laughing anymore.
What it says about you: Yes, in fact, that is a stylus in my pocket.
(Source: Kārlis Dambrāns)
Samsung Galaxy S5
Style: Perforated plastic panache
Main attraction: It does it all! Well, maybe too much. Never really use that heart rate monitor thingy. Or the fingerprint scanner.
What it says about you: My smartphone is just like my favorite ice cream flavor.
(Source: Microsoft)
Windows Phone
Style: Mysterious. Seldom spotted in the wild.
Main attraction: Italians really seem to like it.
What it says about you: I'm a maverick, and I'm thrilled with the Windows Phone app selection. Yep. Couldn't. Be. Happier.
(Source: Pixabay)
Apple iPhone 6
Style: Skinny jeans with a touch of space gray
Main attraction: Bigger, bendable, and bodacious.
What it says about you: My life is complete. Thank you, Apple.
(Source: Everett Collection)
Motorola DynaTAC
Style: Gordon Gekko
Main attraction: Doubles as a barbell.
What it says about you: I crashed my $2 million Bugatti, and I don't care.
(Source: Everett Collection)
Motorola DynaTAC
Style: Gordon Gekko
Main attraction: Doubles as a barbell.
What it says about you: I crashed my $2 million Bugatti, and I don't care.
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