Consumers Not Taken with Phone Cams, Video

By Geoff Duncan Published July 25, 2014

A new study from Harris Interactive finds that all those super gee-whiz high-tech whiz-bang features that are being rolled into mobile phones and wireless data services may not have consumers cheering in the streets and laying down lamb kabobs at the feet of their technological liberators. Harris Interactive surveyed 1,332 U.S. adults between May 1 and May 8, 2006, and found that among mobile users, only 39 percent report having used text messaging, 18 percent have sent pictures from camera phones, and only three percent of tried to send video clips. (No word on how many tried and failed to send video clips.) Well over half of all mobile phone users

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