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Friday, 08 April 2005 |
Commuters
burdened with mobiles, iPods and Blackberrys
Silicon.com - UK
The average commuter is weighed down with more than £500 worth of gadgets
on the way to work, including mobile phone, iPod and Blackberry devices.
Nearly all (98 per cent) of commuters travelling into London carry a mobile
phone, almost half carry an MP3 player, a third tout a Blackberry and one in
eight lug a laptop to work, according to research commissioned by Woolworths.
Woolworths spokeswoman Nicole Lander said the pressure to stay in touch with the
office combined with the need to improve the work-life balance were fuelling the
boom in mobile technology.
"You often find that City workers will use their phone and organiser on their
way into work to get ahead of the game but relax with a good book or a portable
DVD player on the journey home," she said.
Of the 3,500 rail commuters from London and the Home Counties quizzed, over half
said their mobile was their most important companion on their commute, followed
by a newspaper (29 per cent) iPod (8.6 per cent) and Blackberry (8.3 per cent).
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