While “sexting” might be the hot button issue for many Smartphone photo and video takers there are other activities that believe it or not actually end up consuming more of an amateur videographers time.

According to a recent report by the Baltimore Sun the following video captures are the most common among Smartphone users:

• 23%: People in embarrassing outfits.
• 15%: A person tripping or falling.
• 10%: A sexy waitress.
• 9%: A shirtless hunk mowing the neighbor’s lawn.
• 7%: Cheerleaders.
• 7%: A boss or co-worker eating a second donut.
• 6%: Repulsive grooming habits.

Secret Smartphone Videos Survey Reveals What People Like To Capture is a post from: The Inquisitr

I realize that for the most part us Canucks (Canadians to the rest of ya) are a pretty laid back bunch of folks who take our time to warm up to new and cool things but it seems that we are only now joining our neighbors to the south in their love for all things smartphonie.

This is according to a new survey from Ipsos Reid where they are reporting that 31% of Canadians now own a smartphone, which is a jump of more that 50% over last year.

Not only are more of us owning the things but we’re doing more things on them than we ever have in the past.

“For several years, smartphone growth was incremental at best, but in 2011, it’s been exponential” says Steve Mossop, President with Ipsos Reid’s Western Canada practice. “A combination of device enhancements, Android, and the explosion of apps has resulted in a significant uptake of smartphones among Canadians to the point where usage levels are competing television viewing and internet browsing in terms of hours spent.”

Not surprisingly, smartphone ownership is significantly higher amongst younger Canadians; in particular, 46 percent of those online Canadians aged 18 to 34 own a smartphone, and their usage (21 hours per week) is significantly higher than older Canadians.

And for the first time ever, the majority of smartphone usage (54 percent) is for activities other than talking (you know, the original purpose of a phone back in the 1900s). Smartphone users take photos (70 percent), send or read email (70 percent), check the weather (52 percent), and send or receive IM’s (52 percent) with their device. The most drastic increase in smartphone usage rates is connected with social networking (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), with 48 percent of smartphone owners use their devices to check social networking sites, an increase of nearly twenty points since previously measured in the spring of 2010.

via TechVibes

I will say that it sure makes those long winter nights in the igloo a lot more enjoyable.

Apparently Canadians are jumping all over that new-fangled smartphone thing is a post from: The Inquisitr

Like this is any real surprise but Mike Melanson over at ReadWriteWeb brings us the results of a recent survey taken by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism as part of its yearly Digital Future report (pdf).

The survey asked 2,000 people if they would pay to use Twitter and the results were that … are you ready …. zero percent would be willing to pay.

Jeffrey Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future, said that the response shows just how difficult it can be to begin charging users for services and goods they already receive for free.

“Twitter has no plans to charge its users, but this result illustrates, beyond any doubt, the
tremendous problem of transforming free users into paying users,” said Cole. “Online providers
face major challenges to get customers to pay for services they now receive for free.”

Of the survey’s 1,981 respondents, 49% had “used free micro-blogs such as Twitter.” While 70% said that they found Internet advertising annoying, it was by far the most preferable outcome (outside of completely free, ad-free content), with 55% of respondents saying they “would rather see Web advertising than pay for content.”

Like I said, color me surprised.

Would people pay for Twitter? Survey says …. No. is a post from: The Inquisitr

Call me a bluff old traditionalist out of touch with the modern world, but I’d take a physical copy of a game over a downloadable version any day of the week. Why do I feel this way, when downloadable games are so easily accessible, environmentally friendly, and convenient?

Well, there are a few reasons. I love the ceremony and process of browsing through games in a bricks-and-mortar store, I love the thrill of opening a new game, I love that fresh box smell, I love a lot of videogame boxart, and I love being able to sell games that I’m done with.

None of which is part of coldly downloading a game.

Thankfully, it’s not just me who feels this way. 64% of us gamers still prefer physical copies of our games over digital downloads, according to a survey of over 1,000 people by research firm Ipsos MediaCT. Aside from the reasons I mentioned above, gamers also fear losing games that have been downloaded.

While I accept that traditional physical games will eventually be phased out, I dearly, dearly hope it’s not for a long time. Now get off my damn lawn.

[Via CVG]

Hell, yes: 64% of gamers prefer physical copies over digital downloads is a post from: The Inquisitr

Industry analysts are forecasting lower videogame sales this year, but people are playing games for longer than ever.

A new online survey of over 18,000 people by the NPD Group shows gamers in the U.S. spend an average of 13 hours per week at their PC, on their game consoles, or with a handheld device in their mitts. That’s up from from 12.3 hours in 2009.

So far, so mildly interesting, but the NPD also divided survey participants on how much time each spent playing.

They found a minority at the top, labeled by NPD as “extreme gamers”, who averaged 48.5 hours of playing games per week – close to seven hours a day. Oh, sure, mock all you want, but these are the zombie-slayers and robot-killers of tomorrow, and they’re more prepared than you for when it all goes tits up in the real world. Heroes, the bally lot of you.

[Via Gamasutra]

People gaming for longer, ‘extreme gamers’ averaging 48 hours per week is a post from: The Inquisitr

According the the report which I came across via Svetlana Gladkova at Profy.com half of the blog readers said that they used blogs to find purchasing information. First off the survey only accosted 2,200 iinternet users as part of the survey so 50% of that works out to 1,100 people who said they read blogs – well I guess that’s a pretty good percentage but when it comes to whether the blogs they read were of Engadget or Inquisitr quality or if in fact they were all like some Dimwitty from Boise blog.

As rosy as this might paint the revenue streams for bloggers with the color green let’s get realistic here. No two sets of numbers are the same which in reality makes them all suspect and full of crap. It doesn’t matter what cute little fad comes along that is proclaimed as the next great communication medium because no two people can agree on that either. It’s all a matter of stupid hype. the best thing we can honestly do is keep on doing what we are doing. Keep on being honest with our readers and let them decide as they always have and always will whether we are worth their attention.

Hopefully here at the Inquisitr we do just that – that is the best we can hope for.

Yup, It’s true, we have influence – now what? is a post from: The Inquisitr