Wealthy Asians use phones to blog, take photos

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.

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.

“Mobility has become the new creed of Asian elites and they are using the ‘third screen’ — screens on mobile phones, PDAs, MP4s and other personal portable devices — for connectivity, information and entertainment,” Clare Lui, research director at market intelligence firm Synovate, said in a statement.

(Source Reuters)