In seems many Hongkoners are more than accustomed to that sinking feeling you get when you stand up from the toilet to hear an extra an unexpected plop – yep, that was your phone.
“The State of Our Smartphones”, a report released on Tuesday by phone protector OtterBox, reveals that eight percent of Hongkongers have dropped their phones down the loo. A further 11 percent of us have cracked screens and the like by sitting on our devices.
Life lesson: don’t carry your phone in your back pocket.
One in five of us (20 percent) damage our phones within the first year of purchase, 52 percent of us are currently using a damaged phone, and, if not, 80 percent of us expect them to be damaged within the next 12 months.
We’re a realistic bunch if nothing else.
“Hong Kong is renowned for its tribes of ‘smartphone zombies’ which has resulted in a city of droppers, as over one third (35 percent) of people interviewed admitted damaging their phones because their eyes were on their phone and not where they were going,” said Steve Nisbet, APAC MD at OtterBox.
After interviewing 2,500 adult smartphone users across Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia, OtterBox found that we’re the most clumsy nation, with 81 percent of us admitting to ballsing up our electronic lifeline compared to just 62 percent in Singapore.
And we’ve done this on average of 3.3 times in the last five years compared to the Asia average of 2.8 times.
Just remember to look before you flush (as if you don’t already).
Photo: Peyri Herrera
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