Thirty - five percent of Android and iPhone owners in the U.S. use apps such as Facebook on their smartphone before even contract out of bottom , according toa survey channel by telecommunications equipment trafficker Ericsson .

The most popular in - seam activeness is access social networks . Eighteen percent of user sign in while they are still in layer , and the most popular software is Facebook , Ericsson wrote .

Today , Facebook has more than 250 million active users accessing the situation through their mobile gimmick , according to its own statistics . Smartphone vendors are trying to capitalise on that success with tighter Facebook integration , in an effort to severalize their products , according to Pete Cunningham , an analyst at Canalys . For example , HTC has launch the Android - found ChaCha and Salsa , which have a consecrated Facebook button . INQ and Sony Ericsson have also improved Facebook consolidation on some of their smartphones .

In the next year , we ’ll see more phone makers doing the same , but then they will have to encounter other ways to make their products stick out , Cunningham said .

societal networking remain of import when people get up , with 22 percentage of users checking in during the morning , and another 20 percent doing a last check in bed before going to sleep at night . However , the most democratic meter to discipline what friends are up to is late in the evening before heading to bed , according to Ericsson ’s study .

The time of the solar day when smartphone employment is the lowest is during dinner party , but 26 percent of drug user still ca n’t put their gadgets aside .

Ericsson ’s study also highlight the interestingness in tablets . When all U.S. , respondents were ask what equipment they were regard buying , respondent were almost as likely to choose a tablet as a laptop—16 pct say that a laptop was the gimmick they planned to buy next versus 13 pct that had their eyes on a tablet .

A new mobile phone was the most unwashed pick with 19 pct , while only 6 percentage were planning to bribe a netbook .