Cisco Research: Smartphones beating laptops

Smartphones now rival laptops as the single most desired device by 18-30 year olds in the Middle East as they are seen as the most versatile and compact, according to the 2012 Cisco Connected World Technology Report (CCWTR).
If they had to choose only one device, more than half of respondents preferred a smart phone, while slightly more than a third favored laptops.
Smartphones have surpassed desktop computers as the preferred workplace device from a global perspective.
Smartphones were rated nearly twice as popular as a laptop PC.
The results are based on a survey commissioned by Cisco of 1920 university students and young professionals aged 18 to 30 globally.
The report examines how this generation uses the Internet and mobile devices to connect with the world around them, and reveals their behaviors, attitudes, issues, and concerns about the creation, access, management, and privacy of the enormous amounts of data being generated daily by smart phones, sensors, video cameras, monitors, and other connected devices.
Key findings in the Middle East: Three out of five (60 percent) of respondents in the Middle East use three devices during a typical day while nearly 30 percent use more than four devices.
Almost 55 percent of 18-30 year olds selected smart phones as the single most desired device while only one out of three (33 percent) preferred laptop computers.
Nearly three out of five (56 percent) of the respondents said they rely on mobile applications all the time whereas about 22 percent use mobile applications for games or entertainment.