The Dollars and Sense of the iPhone

Check out this look inside the iPhone 4 and Apple's relationship with Samsung from this week's Economist.com.

How We Use Our Cellphones Infographic

Via: Online IT Degree by way of Chris Brogan

Does Your Kid Text Every Ten Minutes?

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It's not just you Atlanta! A great one from Chart of the Day.

American kids under 18 send and receive roughly 2,800 texts per month, according to Nielsen, or about 93 per day. Assuming 7 hours of sleep per night, on average, that's about 5.5 per hour spent awake, or one every 10 minutes or so. In the next two age brackets, text-message usage falls by more than half each.

But it's people ages 18-24 who talk the most on their cellphones, according to Nielsen, averaging 981 minutes per month. These are probably the people most likely to not have landline phones, so this also makes sense.

I-What?

(click chart to enlarge * by Dan Frommer for Business Insider)