<p>   u00a0</p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   In total, users check their smartphones an average of 150 times during a waking day of 16 hours, the study found.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Looking at their phone is the first thing many people do each day - as they use its alarm function - and is also the last, the study commissioned by a mobile phone brand found.</div>  <div>   u00a0</div>  <p class="caption">   <img alt="Smartphone user" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/feb/smartphone-user.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 332px;" /><br />   <strong>Representational picture</strong></p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   In between, phones are used to check the internet and read emails, as well as to make calls and send texts, the &#39;Daily Mail&#39; reported.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Even people who have less-sophisticated devices check their phones frequently, it was found.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   A person just using a phone with basic functions will rack up dozens of uses a day. Mobile technology consultant Tomi Ahonen who analysed the study, wrote on his blog that people make, receive or avoid 22 phone calls every day.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   They also send or receive text messages 23 times a day, Ahonen said, and check the clock 18 times.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &quot;The average phone user places three calls per day and also receives three calls,&quot; Ahonen said.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &quot;Where are the other 16 times? Interruptions! We have a dropped call (one per day) or we make a call attempt that won&#39;t go through (one per day),&quot; he said. Setting the alarm, playing games, changing songs, taking pictures and plugging and unplugging the phone all added to the number of phone views, he said.</div>  

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