[Ron Gramann]

Instead of focusing on what apps are or are not available for Windows Phone, I thought it may be interesting to see how users actually use their phones.

Personally, I only use my phone (to make phone calls) roughly 5% of the time - if that.

My breakdown includes:

30% News and Information (Weave, Fuse, WPCentral, CNN, Amazing Weather, etc)
20% Email
15% Surfing the Web
10% Quick Reference (IMDB, All Recipes, etc)
5% Maps & Navigation
5% Books (Kindle)
5% Photos
5% Phone & Txt Messaging
5% Social (Twitter)

(No, I did not forget to include Games)

I thought this kind of information may be of some value for developers, since it focuses on usage rather than missing or inferior apps.

Your thoughts?

[sinime]

IDK about my percentages, but the apps I use most of the time ( In order of use):

People Hub
WPCentral
Gaming (various titles)
IE
Beer Knurd
Fail Blog (various, not crazy about apps I've used so I haven't settled on 1)

[JerseySal]

Political News, Weather, WPCentral,blogging about politics, music, games, photos, CardStar

[ricardios]

Mainly news - weather, sports, tech. Email and text. Internet, camera, and quick note taking.

[Laura Knotek]

Twitter, RSS feeds, WPCentral, email, WhatsApp, browser, streaming audio/video, maps, SMS/MMS, weather, sports scores, games, camera.

Phone calls are the feature I use the least.

[bawboh86]

RSS feeds, WPCentral, email, Twitter, Facebook, checking my DeviantArt messages, games, music, texting, phone calls, and the camera. Sometimes, I use it to take notes in meetings with OneNote, too.

[NinjaPenguin777]

Texting
Phone calls
Checking weather (I never used to do this until WP8)
Checking email
Using the internet
Other (Pictures, Music, other apps)

[Chregu]

Music, Email, news, games, short messages, WPCentral forum, Whatsapp... I seldom use the phone function.

But what I think I do definitely the most is remodeling the home screen ;)

[charlyee]

• News and Weather
• Forum Surfing
• E - Mail
• Texting
• GroupMe
• Facebook/Tweeter
• Reading books
• Alarm
• Calendar & To Do list
• Phone calls
• Camera
• Navigation.

No Games

[diavol]

Texting,gaming,sending mails,alarm,music,taking photos,news...

[budney]

1. Facebook/Twitter
2. Music
3. Text/GroupMe
4. News/Sports/Weather
5. Email
6. Browse Forums/Board Express
7. Phone Calls
8. Games
9. Alarm/Timer

[justmoe40]

60% emails
30% calls
8% mixture of showing off camera and installing apps/updates
2% games

[GSOgymrat]

Music probably 90% of the time. My 920 is like a MP3 player that also happens to make phone calls.

Email
Internet sharing for my tablet
Runstatic
GPS navigation
Audiobooks
Phone calls
Camera

I don't prefer reading news, surfing the net, watching videos or playing games on a phone due to the small screen size. I usually have my Surface with me for those things and will only use the phone as a last resort.

[fatclue_98]

Calendar - 50%
Email - 30%
eBay & PayPal - 10%
Text & Phone - 10%

Weather? Who cares, it's hot as **** in Miami every day!

[Kebero]

Communication, PIM, news, weather & reference, web browsing, some light gaming and streaming media, and the camera (920)

[irvin792]

Web browsing 50%
Texting 25%
Camera 10%
Calendar 5%
Email 5%
Games/Apps 2%
Phone Calls 2%
GPS 1%

And I wonder why my battery life sucks ;)

[Old_Cus]

Email (5 accounts)
Alarms (3 every morning)
Calendars (3 merged)
Weather
Facebook
Calls/Texting
WP Central/Windows Phone News
Camera/Pictures
Other apps (Amazon Mobile, CNN,Ebay,Flixster,GasBuddy,Yelp, etc)

*I also have Ask Ziggy but I rarely use it. I just have it to show my iphone friends.

[zokstar]

Music
Calls
SMS/Whatsapp
Time & track my runs
Camera
Facebook
Emails
Weather

[Dadstar0410]

~45% streaming media
20% People Hub
10% texting
10% forum posting
10% checking weather
5% email, calls, browsing

[dipayanster]

30% Facebook mobile
10% FB chat + gtalk
20% News reader (RSS)
10% forum + call + text + navigation + game + camera + music + video
30% email

not using at all: calender, weather, podcast

[freestaterocker]

40% calls and texting(weird, right? *includes skype*)
30% Music DLing & Listening
20% General Internet Access (fb, wpc, news & weather, etc)
9% Games
1% Other (camera, apps, etc...)

My phone is also my Bible, which I use every day, but I consider that part of communication... Not gonna preach in here, so if you *genuinely* want to know what I mean, PM me.

That's right, folks! My phone is primarily a COMMUNICATION device. How bizarre, indeed.

[sdreamer]

40% News (Weave, WPCentral, Amazing Weather)
30% Communication (Messaging, Email, Phone)
15 % Referencing (Davis's Drug Guide, MPR, Pocket Lab Values, PillBee)
10% (Well... sorta 100%) Productivity (Calendar, but it's always on my Start screen... but I usually use it every so often to update my schedules)
5% Games (Dodonpachi Maximum, Mush, Bonnie's Brunch, etc)

[jiayit]

40% news, 5% texting, 44% web browsing (to Facebook, I hate the app), 1% phone calls, 5% photos and 5% social.

Reading is done on my Kobo Mini eReader. Green text turns white when I stare at the LCD screen too long.