Wealthy Asians use phones to blog, take photos: study

For wealthy Asians, mobile phones and Blackberrys are much more than a way to stay in touch, with a survey finding portable communication devices increasingly being used to watch videos, take pictures and surf the Web. Reuters reports.

"The Synovate-Pax regional survey of nearly 10,000 respondents across seven countries in Asia showed 56 percent of affluent Asians use their mobile devices every week to take pictures, while more than 30 percent watched video clips.

... The Synovate-PAX study tracked media and digital consumption, prosperity and influence across 11 Asia-Pacific markets -- Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, India and the Philippines.

It was conducted in 2007 and 2008 and respondents had Internet usage of 60 minutes or above in an average week."

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