New research conducted by the mobile network O2 has found that people spend more time using their smartphones to surf the web, check social networks or play games, than to make actual phone calls, the Daily Telegraph reported.

The average smartphone owner spends over two hours each day on the device. During that time, they spend an average of 25 minutes using their phone to browse the web, 17 minutes on social networking, 13 minutes on playing games and 16 minutes on listening to music.

Making phone calls (12 minutes) with the smartphone was only the fifth most popular use for the gadget, and takes up only slightly more time than they spend writing or checking emails (11 minutes) and text messaging (10 minutes).

(China.org.cn July 3, 2012)

《每日電訊報》報道，英國移動企業O2公司最新調查結果顯示，人們使用智能手機更多的是上網、看社交網絡或玩游戲，而非打電話。

人們每天會花2個小時玩手機。其中，手機上網用時25分鐘，玩社交網絡花費17分鐘，打游戲用時13分鐘，而聽音樂則花費16分鐘。

打電話位列手機常用功能第五位，一天用時12分鐘，僅比收發郵件（用時11分鐘）和發短信（用時10分鐘）多花一些時間。