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Five Daily Activities on Tablets


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Published on Thursday, 05 July 2012 09:08


People have quickly begun using media tablets for daily personal activities, according to a Gartner survey. The main activities moving from PCs to tablets are checking email (81 percent of respondents), reading the news (69 percent), checking the weather forecast (63 percent), social networking (62 percent) and gaming (60 percent).





The survey was conducted in the United States, England and Australia.“The rapid adoption of media tablets is changing how consumers access, create and share content,” says Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner. ”The survey found more than 50 percent of media tablet owners prefer to read news, magazines and books on screen, rather than on paper,” Milanesi adds.



On average, one in three respondents used their media tablets to read a book, compared with 13 percent for mobile PCs and 7 percent for mobile phones. Currently, the shift from paper to screen-based consumption is not yet a straight substitution of one medium for another. “We do not believe the ‘paperless home’ will prevail, but it is clear that the ‘less-paper model’ is the new reality,” says eike Escherich, principal research analyst at Gartner.



“The ongoing convergence of previously distinct devices seems to be turning the market for consumer devices from hardware-centric to usage-centric,” explains Escherich. “Other than their tablets, most respondents also owned PCs, TVs and mobile phones. The respondents, early adopters of media tablets, say they use their multiple devices interchangeably, rather than substituting one device for another. They seek to use whichever device is at hand — or the most convenient to use at a particular time and for a specific task.

However, respondents use their PCs (desk-based or mobile) 20 percent less at weekends. Tablets play a more dominant role in the home than mobile phones or PCs, with the highest usage taking place in the living room (87 percent), the bedroom (65 percent) and the kitchen (47 percent). “Weekday evenings are the most popular time to use tablets and this usage flattens out during the weekend as people tend to be away from home,” says Milanesi.

The main reason for buying a tablet is the form factor. More specifically, users purchase a media tablet, in preference to a PC, for its convenience, small size and lightweight. Also, 45 percent of respondents do not share their tablet at all. This confirms that a tablet is almost as personal as a mobile phone in terms of usage and consumer attitude. And, men purchase their own tablets and women receive them as gifts.


The Mobile Phone Is the Device Most Used Throughout the Day

The mobile phone is the most personal device in the hands of users, and it enables more private activities, according to Gartner. It is the device that is used most throughout the day, with the average usage of eight times a day for tasks requiring connectivity. This compares with an average usage frequency of twice a day for tablets and three times a day for mobile PCs.

Mobile phones play a role both inside and outside the home. Within the home, users recorded the most activities on their phones when in their living room (78 percent). Sixty-five percent used them outside the home or while in transit, and 66 per cent used them at work. This aligns with Gartner's scenario for screen usage in the living rooms of today and tomorrow: even though the TV remains the largest screen in the living room, it shares users' attention with other devices with smaller screens, often used simultaneously, as people access different services.

Across all activities conducted on the Internet, checking email (74 percent) and social networking (57 percent) are the most common activities on mobile phones. Gaming is in fourth place (42 percent) and appears more popular than checking the news (40 percent) and listening to music (40 percent). Watching live TV remains a limited activity for mobile phone users (5 percent), but on-demand content has a slightly broader reach (15 percent).

Furthermore, both male and female adopters show similar attitudes toward the use of mobile devices. Both groups use the Internet more at home than elsewhere and they use it for research, shopping, learning and socialising. However, women connect significantly less than the men when outside the home. Difference in location may be partly linked to gender-specific usage patterns. While men seem to prefer to gather information, women use their devices more for personalised entertainment activities like gaming and socialising via Facebook or Twitter.

-----Gartner

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