19% of U.S. Citizens Drop Phone Into The Toilet

For most Americans, the main cause of loss of contact data in mobile phones was not a virus, but a toilet. Why?

One in three respondents study of Mobile & Online Backup by an online address book Plaxo Inc. claimed that they never remove or damage their phones so that data loss contact names. 19 percent of them admitted that they had dropped their phone down the toilet. Similarly, as quoted by MSNBC on Friday (22/07/2011).

The dependence of modern society on their handheld devices can not be denied. Some time ago, Google found that 39 percent of users take their phones into the toilet.

Although careless in the toilet, the U.S. smartphone users seem quite aware of the importance of copying important data from their computers or phones. As many as 72 percent of respondents claimed to do a backup for contact data on their phones.

While 68 percent of respondents who have a smartphone is also more frequent back-up data on their personal computers than computer owners in general.

Plaxo also found that 25 percent of respondents already using the cloud to backup their computer data. While smartphones become the primary choice of users to store their contact data (71 percent) compared to other options such as PCs, laptops, email or social networking.

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