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What kind of mobile phone user are you?

A study from mobile phone company Motorola identified several profiles of mobile users and classified them as types of birds. What kind of mobile phone user are you?

Question 1 Your phone is nicked while you're in a pub. What happens next?
 
  Did they take the television and the stereo too?
  You text message the police from the palmtop organiser in your other pocket
  You seal the pub doors and frisk everyone in the bar
  Your company issues a replacement three weeks later
 
Question 2 What does a mobile phone give you that a land line cannot?
 
  The ability to make or cancel plans at the last minute
  Reassurance of help in an emergency
  Terminal brain tumours
  Mobile email and internet access
 
Question 3 You have just split from your partner. Your mate phones as you squeeze onto a crowded morning train to work. How do you respond?
 
  You're still at home, crying down the land line to your mum
  Loudly recite the full, gory details of the argument, consulting other commuters for their opinions as well
  Tell him to read the mobile email you just sent to his workstation
  Muffle a sob and say you will call back later
 
Question 4 What is your ring tone?
 
  That standard ring, ring sound
  Kylie's Can't Get you out of my Head
  A tune I created this morning
  Set to vibrate
 
Question 5 What is 3G?
 
  An expensive, unproven mobile technology
  The network I need to go with my 23rd-century Nokia prototype
  An opportunity to talk and text non-stop with my mates
  A bingo call
 
Question 6 What does the mobile phone represent to you?
 
  Damned teenagers
  Mother, father, friend, analyst
  A way my office can ruin my weekend
  The pinnacle of scientific, consumerist achievement
 
Question 7 How do you pay for your phone calls?
 
  I don't, my company pays
  With a top-up card
  I write a cheque to BT every quarter
  I have a monthly contract
 
Question 8 What's your highest snake score?
 
  I play an interactive version of Tomb Raider
  Is that some sort of code word for sex?
  1,009
  I can't quite make that game work
 
Question 9 Where do you keep your phone?
 
  Next to my ear
  I leave the micro ear piece on if I'm expecting a call
  On the table next to the sofa
  At the bottom of my handbag/briefcase
 
 


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