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Consumer Reports undertook a study last week, which showed that iPhone users are far heavier consumer of bandwidth than others. Compared to other smartphones, the typical iPhone owner uses 2x as much bandwidth. Even worse, compared to Blackberry users, iPhone’s traffic an average of 5x as much data, 273MB compared to just 54MB. 12% of iPhone owners used more than 500MB a month, and 4% more than 1000MB.

Is this because iPhones are used in a different way to other smartphones? Blackberrys in particular are designed more for heavy email volume and enterprise work rather than internet browsing. Maybe iPhone users are more likely to treat their phone like a mini-computer, and actually use it for a wide variety of tasks. Consumer Reports mentions that the heavy iPhone usage may play a part in AT&T’s struggle to handle coverage in large cities.

[via MacRumors]

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