Advances in technology and automation have reduced the need for manual labor. Therefore, working hours should be reduced. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

The table reveals seven different mobile phone functions used by owners in 2006, 2008, and 2010

Overall

, the figures show that all aspects either had a big or small increase, with the exception of making calls which reduced slightly.

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Internet searching was not recorded in 2006.

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video recording stood at 9% in 2008, before increasing nearly four-fold to 35% in 2010.

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Internet searching

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started at 41% in 2008,

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climbed up moderately to 73% in 2010.

By contrast

, making calls and sending and receiving text messages contributed to the highest percentages at 100% and 73% in 2006, respectively. After that, the former fell by a single percentage point to 99% in 2010,

while

the latter rose to 79% in the next four years.

Finally

, an upward trend was noticed in both playing games and playing music. Playing games started at 17% in 2006, before rising significantly to 41% in 2010.

Likewise

, there was a slight growth in playing music, increasing from 12% in 2008 to 26% in 2010.