手機在“瘋行”：英國手機數量超過人口數
The number of active mobile phones in Britain has soared to a record 76.4million – more than one for every man, woman and child in the country.
More than nine in ten adults now own at least one handset, figures show, while many have two or three, perhaps with a BlackBerry for work and an iPhone for social use.
Details on how the handsets – particularly smartphones with music players, games, cameras, internet and email access – have come to dominate modern life have been revealed by telecoms regulator Ofcom.
More than one in seven households relies entirely on mobiles and has done away with a fixed line for making calls. And one in 14 rely on them for access to the internet and emails.
Some 27 percent of adults are smartphone users, with half buying in the last year.
The figures also show each handset is used for about 166 minutes of calls a month.
As the average length of each call is just 1 minute, 13 seconds, critics suggest people cut short "real" conversations to communicate through text, email or social websites.
More children would miss their mobile more than their home TV, Ofcom found. And one in eight people say their partner spends more time on their phone than with them.據英國《每日郵報》11月2日報道，在英國，正在使用中的手機數已經飆升至創紀錄的7640萬——這一數字超過了人手一部的數量。
超過十分之九的成年人至少擁有一部手機，數據顯示，許多人都有兩到三部手機，可能有一部黑莓用於工作，另外還會準備一部iPhone用於平常的社交生活。
英國通信管理局已經揭示了手機如何主宰人類現代生活的細節——特別是具有音樂播放器、遊戲、攝像頭、網絡和電郵訪問等功能的智能手機。
超過七分之一的家庭完全依賴於手機，已經不用固定線路撥打電話了。有十四分之一的家庭則依靠手機訪問互聯網以及收發電子郵件。
約莫有27%的成年人是智能手機的用戶，其中半數是在去年購買的。
數據還顯示，平均每部手機每個月大約通話166分鐘。
因爲平均每次通話的時長僅爲1分13秒，評論家表示，人們縮短了“真實”的對話溝通，轉而選擇通過短信、電郵或是社交網站來進行交流。
英國通信管理局發現，更多的孩子會想念他們的手機而不是家裏的電視。八分之一的人表示，他們的伴侶花在手機上的時間比和他們在一起的時間還多。
