The days of the television being the “first screen” we turn to for entertainment are over. A study has found the box has been officially replaced by phones and tablets – a trend that has been on the increase for the past two years.
People now spend an average of two hours and 57 minutes each day on mobile devices and, which is up 9.3 per cent from just nine months ago. In comparison, the time spent watching television has stayed the same since 2012, at two hours and 48 minutes per day. This is the first time that time spent on mobile screens has surpassed（超过）time spent watching TV.
“Smart devices are practical, and are glued to consumers 24/7/365,” the San Francisco-based group wrote. “Those factors, combined with the content explosion on these devices through millions of apps, helped mobile take away the big prize from television.”
The same study found that in the past nine months, time spent in the top 25 applications, including Facebook, Twitter, Netflix and Skype, only grew by one per cent. But time spent in the apps below the top 25, grew 21 per cent in the same time period, as more and more applications made their way into the top app stores.
However, the data didn’t take into consideration the phenomenon of “second screen”, in which there is an overlap（重叠）between the time spent on TV and that on mobile devices. The average smartphone user tends to spend two hours (119 minutes) a day using their gadget.
The study, from network operator O2 looked at exactly what we use our phones for and how much time each activity takes each day. It found that people now spend 24 minutes every day browsing the internet — longer than anything else. This was followed by checking various social networks (16 minutes), listening to music (15 minutes) and playing games (13 minutes).
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