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\u201cPeople really are using their cell phones for way more than just phone calls now,\u201d says the Pew Research Center\u2019s Global Attitude Project\u2019s associate director, Richard Wike, who organized the conduction of the survey.  The Global Attitudes Project covered 21 countries in a bid to try and find out just how people from all over the world are making use of their new and old cell phones in the 21st<\/sup> century.  The great majority of cell phone users still use them to make phone calls, but an increasing number are using them for other tasks as well.  \u201cIn particular, they\u2019re texting,\u201d Wike notes.  Seventy-five percent of all cell phone users say that they make use of their smart-phones in order to both send and receive text messages, with the activity most common in poorer nations such as Indonesia and Kenya, where 96 and 89 percent respectively say they use the devices for the purposes of texting.<\/p>\n

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Around 50 percent of those in the global survey use their cell phones to take photographs, with the most likely to do being the Japanese, 75 percent of whom admit to using their cell phones as cameras, while around 25 percent of people use cell phones to surf the web, although the figure is higher in some nations than others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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