Men are more obsessed with mobiles

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">NEW DELHI: Cell phone or mating prop-cum-status symbol? According to a new survey, men’s relationship with their mobiles is vastly different from women’s: men just love their gadgets and play with them frequently. Whether it’s sending SMSs, playing games, or downloading stuff, Indian men love to fiddle with their mobiles (33 per cent) as compared to women (21per cent), says the </span><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="" font-style:="" italic="">Seimens Mobile Lifestyle Survey 2004</span><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">.It was conducted in nine countries in the Asia-Pacific region.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">Men also tend to talk louder into their mobiles in public than women, the survey found.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">These findings are not dissimilar to a University of Liverpool study which observed patrons at an upmarket pub: while women kept their phones in their purses and took them out only when needed, men would take them out of their jackets/briefcases as soon as they sat down and place them on the bar counter or table for all to see; they fiddled with them often, checking to be sure the battery was charged.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">What’s it with men and their mobiles? “Men use their mobile phones as peacocks use their feathers and male bullfrogs use their croaks: to advertise to females their worth, status and desirability,’’ said researchers in the journal </span><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="" font-style:="" italic="">Human Nature</span><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">, which published the pub study. “Technology subserves primal impulses, specifically the impulse to strut.’’</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">It also suggests that the evolution of technology is driven, not merely by scientific innovations or the demand for heightened worker productivity, but by the social need of people to find novel ornaments and status symbols that distinguish them from the pack.</span></div> </div>