While Apple fans eagerly await the release of the iPhone 5S, new research is coming out on just how often people use and check their smartphones on an average day.
Buzzfeed reports that an Android app called Locket, which pays users in exchange for placing ads on their lockscreens, has compiled data from over 150,000 users. Data analysts have discovered that the average person checks their phone around 110 times a day, with some individuals even checking at around 900 times per day.
Locket users are the most active between 5 and 8 p.m. EST, the time period at which most users (75 percent) are swiping their lockscreens. During these peak hours, users check their phones about 9 times per hour, but even during low frequency hours of 3 to 5 a.m., 25 percent of Locket users are actively checking their phones at around 4 times an hour.
Though the data from locket only applies to Android users who use the service and may be checking their phones more frequently in hopes of monetary gain from the program, another study by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers recently found that the average user (with or without the Locket app) checks their phones around 150 times a day.
Back in May, CNN reported on a study from Experian, which found that people spend an average of 58 minutes a day on their smartphones, and iPhone users spent more time on their devices than their Android and other alternative counterparts.
Though half of the participants involved in the study reported using their phones to read, on average users reported spending just 26 percent of their time talking, 20 percent texting and just 9 percent sending out emails. Social networking was found to take up about 16 percent of time, while gaming and other activites account for 8 or 9 percent.
