Apparently smartphones are no longer merely an instrument for communication. They can not only make statement about your social life, sex life but now they also related to your spending pattern. According to a latest survey, iPhone users incur significantly higher expenditure on their credit card than their Blackberry, Android and Windows mobile counterparts. The study was carried out by Pageonce Inc. and their research universe was 275,000 accounts strong.
An average iPhone user is likely to run $6,872 in credit card bills every month, in comparison to $5,693 for BlackBerry users and $5,330 for Android users. Windows Mobile users were most judicious with $5,076 credit card bill. And mind you, these are the new charges for the month and are not the balance carried forwards.
This should not come as a surprise since a previous study carried out by Nielsen Co. had shown that an average iPhone user tends to be wealthier and older than their counterpart and this characteristic may explain higher credit card bill.
Pageonce also studied the monthly mobile bill expenditure and found that the monthly bill runs highest for Windows Mobile user at$205.33, followed by Android users at $196.94 and BlackBerry wielders at $194.35. However, in this category, iPhone users were the most frugal ones and shelled out considerably lower $164.91 per month.
So, do you agree with these findings?
Source: WSJ