The table below gives information about the different ways mobile phone owners use their phones in a developing country. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The table shows the kinds of mobile
phone
usage by individuals from a developing country. The answers range in seven categories of features percentage-wise for three years
: 2006, 2008, and 2010.
Generally, almost everybody said they use their phone
to make calls in all years
. In comparison, only a few folks make use of it to play music or record videos. The increasing trend was observed for the utilization of nearly all features for three years
. In addition
, there was no recorded data for internet browsing and video recording in 2006.
Firstly
, the portion of the population who make calls with their phone
has stably stayed at 100% and only decreased a little by 1% in 2010. Meanwhile, there was a slight growth in the fragment of the public who communicate by sending and receiving text messages by 6% (from 73% in 2006 to 79% in 2010). In terms of documentation, society tends to lean toward taking photos instead
of recording videos, which is always above 65% and never reaching 40% respectively.
As for entertainment, more people use their phones to play games compared to playing music. There was a significant rise of around 20% in 2 years
from 2006 in the number of community who play games, while
the increase is not that big for playing music (only 10% in 4 years
). Furthermore
, the crowd who surf the internet on their phone
also
climbed from a little above 40% in 2008 to over 70% in the last
year 2010.Submitted by pramestime on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words phone, years with synonyms.
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