So it is not really a secret that we are addicted to our phones, whether smartphones or not. Mobile guru Tomi Ahonen has long ago pointed out this addiction and even argued we should stop calling it a mobile phone.  But a recent study from Mobile Mindset is down right scary:

Now forget that these behaviors are both dangerous and unhygienic (think twice before you borrow somebody’s phone to make a call). Could this have other implications for mobile developers? Will there for instance be a saturation of push notifications?  In the strive to engage, are we engaging too much, and will it back fire? There is certainly a difference among ages here, so who knows.  For now we observe the trend, and start thinking of having that hand sanitizer more readily available…

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