Tell me the type of your smartphone .. less for you than you

4:32 p.m.

Thursday, January 10

CAIRE –

Our smartphones are now part of our identity. Many of us spend more than 5 hours a day using these devices.
What do smartphones reveal about our personalities?
According to the BBC report, a group of researchers from the University of Lincoln and Lancaster studied 500 "iPhone" and "Android" phone users, as well as their attitudes towards the device used by each one of them.
Researchers have discovered that our choice of a smartphone reveals some characteristics of our personality. They found, for example, that Android users are more loyal than iPhone users.
But iPhone users are generally younger and more open than other Android device users.
Women, it seems, use the iPhone more than any other device.

The study found that women were twice as likely as men to own the iPhone, but the researchers did not explain why.
However, Android users tend to be older men.
But why does our choice of a smart device reveal the characteristics of our characters?
The iPhone and Android account for about 90% of smartphone sales worldwide.
Google Android is the most popular smart phone system in the world until 2018, covering 88% of the shares in global markets.
Apple, says AOS, occupies the second position with 12% of world markets.
This option allows the buyer of the device to express it.
"It has become increasingly clear that smart phones have become a miniature digital version of the same user," said Heather Shaw, co-author of the study.
"Many of us do not like some people who try to use their phones because they reveal a lot about us," she says.
The study found that iPhone enthusiasts are not the most willing to live with Android users.
But have found that iPhone users are paying increasing attention to the perception that others have of their devices, as a sign of their status.
They tend to show more emotions than others.
Researchers went a step further by designing a computer program – based on their findings – to predict the type of phone possessed by the subject of the test.
"We can build a statistical model that, after some personal questions to testers, can predict the type of phone in their pockets with a sincerity of 70%," said researcher David Ellis in an interview with CNN.
In their study, Ellis and his colleagues conclude that personality traits can be detected "with the help of simple things, such as choosing the operating system of your smartphone."