Ever since the app which tracked my data usage on my smartphone was upgraded to a newer version in April, I was quite amazed how much information they captured with regards to my usage.
Monthly Usage
- May: 120 hours
- June: 105 hours
- July: 107 hours
- August: 117 hours
Contrary to what I thought, my smartphone usage didn't really decline after I began work in mid-June. The slight dip in June could be explained by 30 calendar days, and the dip in July could be explained by 3 days in Bintan (no 3G/Wifi = lesser usage).
Anyway, the average daily usage worked out to be 3 hours 39 minutes. I could be wrong, but I think it's more than the average Singaporean. Guess I'm a smartphone addict. Haha.
Time-consuming Apps
WhatsApp wins hands down for this contest, and is responsible for 36% of my smartphone usage. The statistics is fairly stable across 4 months, 35%/37%/33%/38%. That works out to about 1 hour 18 minutes of WhatsApp-ing every day. Haha.
Games take up another 26% of my smartphone usage. I play a wide variety of games, and the games I check in daily at the moment are Scramble With Friends, Iceage, Paradise Island. Used to stop playing SWF after a while, but resumed during the rehearsals with my colleagues while we were waiting for our turn to dance. Iceage and Paradise Island are the typical island games which require one to construct buildings and earn gold and experience points. I just completed 80 levels of Miracle City earlier in July, which took me 8 months because the experience needed to level towards the end was so exponential. Haha.
Facebook eats up another 6% of my smartphone usage. Similar to WhatsApp, it forms another stable portion and does not fluctuate much.
As for the remaining 32%, I guess I would classify them as miscellaneous. This includes SMS-ing, surfing the Internet, checking emails, reading news on apps like BBC News, checking soccer scores, or even just checking the screen for the time.
That's about all I have.