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How Smartphones Make You Spend a Bomb
By siliconindia
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Friday, 16 September 2011, 01:18 IST
9. Disclosing debt patterns
The type of smartphone you use may correlate to your use of credit cards. Research by Pageonce, a personal finance site that aggregates users accounts, used its data to see consumer differences across mobile device platforms.
It found that "iPhone users leverage credit cards significantly more than Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile users." The average iPhone user has a 35% higher balance -- carried balance plus new transactions plus any fees and charges -- on their monthly credit card statement than the average Windows Mobile user.
The Pagesource data also showed that Windows Mobile users have the highest mobile-phone bills which are 24.5percent higher than the average iPhone user.
